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CVE-2022-4761

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
February 21, 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 Post Views Count WordPress plugin through 3.0.2 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Post Views Count (Support caching plugins!) — Up to and including 3.0.2
  • post_views_count_project post_views_count — Up to and including 3.0.2

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ad163020-8b9c-42cb-a55f-b137b224bafb Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record