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Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel & Photo Gallery, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Car, CVE-2022-4482

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2022-4482

Published on
Jan 16, 2023
Research Description
The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel WordPress plugin before 2.5.3 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
max 2.5.3.
Status
vulnerable