CVE-2022-4699 (GCVE-0-2022-4699)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-30 20:31
Modified
2025-03-27 19:24
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 MediaElement.js WordPress plugin through 4.2.8 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.
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