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CVE-2022-4749

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
January 30, 2023
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
Weakness
CWE-79
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Posts List Designer by Category WordPress plugin before 3.2 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 Posts List Designer by Category — Before 3.2
  • infornweb posts_list_designer — Before 3.2

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8afc3b2a-81e5-4b6f-8f4c-c48492843569 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record