cve-2022-4756
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-06 19:59
Modified
2025-03-25 20:44
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 ?
0.22% (0.41469)
Summary
The My YouTube Channel WordPress plugin before 3.23.0 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
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d67b0f7a-fdb1-4305-9976-c5f77b0e3b61Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d67b0f7a-fdb1-4305-9976-c5f77b0e3b61Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown My YouTube Channel Version: 0   < 3.23.0
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