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Meks Flexible Shortcodes, CVE-2022-4562

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2022-4562

Published on
Feb 13, 2023
Research Description
The Meks Flexible Shortcodes WordPress plugin before 1.3.5 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 1.3.5.
Status
vulnerable