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CVE-2022-4482

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
January 16, 2023
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel WordPress plugin before 2.5.3 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel — Before 2.5.3
  • techearty carousel\,_slider\,_gallery_by_wp_carousel — Before 2.5.3

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/389b71d6-b0e6-4e36-b9ca-9d8dab75bb0a Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record