CVE-2022-4670

Published Feb 6, 2023

Last updated a year ago

CVSS medium 5.4

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: contact@wpscan.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.4
Impact score: 2.7
Exploitability score: 2.3
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pdf.js_viewer_project:pdf.js_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "12F684C9-B73B-484F-9B84-5EEF147FCAF5",
            "versionEndExcluding": "2.1.8"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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