CVE-2022-4791 (GCVE-0-2022-4791)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-21 08:50 – Updated: 2025-03-14 13:46
VLAI
Title
Product Slider and Carousel with Category for WooCommerce < 2.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode
Summary
The Product Slider and Carousel with Category for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.8 does not validate and escape one of its shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-14 13:45 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0a6e4c45-3f6d-41… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Credits
Lana Codes WPScan
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