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GHSA-X6F3-MX3X-9Q4M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-11-10 12:01 – Updated: 2026-04-28 21:32

Details

Auth. (contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in James Lao's Simple Video Embedder plugin <= 2.2 on WordPress.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2022-44590 (GCVE-0-2022-44590)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-09 21:14 – Updated: 2026-04-28 16:07

Title

WordPress Simple Video Embedder plugin <= 2.2 - Auth. Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Summary

Auth. (contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in James Lao's Simple Video Embedder plugin <= 2.2 on WordPress.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Assigner

Patchstack

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/sim…
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-video-embedder/

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
James Lao	Simple Video Embedder (WordPress plugin)	Affected: <= 2.2 , ≤ 2.2 (custom)

Date Public

2022-11-09 00:00

Credits

Vulnerability discovered by thiennv (Patchstack Alliance)

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GHSA-X6F3-MX3X-9Q4M

CVE-2022-44590 (GCVE-0-2022-44590)

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