cve-2022-4670
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-06 19:59
Modified
2025-03-25 19:35
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS score ?
0.45% (0.60832)
Summary
The PDF.js Viewer WordPress plugin before 2.1.8 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.
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2a67c290-2a27-44fe-95ae-2d427e9d7548Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2a67c290-2a27-44fe-95ae-2d427e9d7548Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown PDF.js Viewer Version: 0   < 2.1.8
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