Vulnerabilites related to Unknown - PPWP
CVE-2022-4626 (GCVE-0-2022-4626)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-06 19:59
Modified
2025-03-25 17:37
Severity ?
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Summary
The PPWP WordPress plugin before 1.8.6 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.
References
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