CVE-2022-4476 (GCVE-0-2022-4476)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-16 15:38
Modified
2025-04-04 17:53
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The Download Manager WordPress plugin before 3.2.62 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Download Manager Version: 0   < 3.2.62
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