CVE-2022-4652 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Video Background WordPress plugin before 2.7.5 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

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Pushlabs	Video Background

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:pushlabs:video_background:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ebf3df99-6939-4ae9-ad55-004f33c1cfbc

History

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-03-13T16:03:29.744Z

Updated: 2025-02-27T20:37:08.905Z

Reserved: 2022-12-22T09:23:23.614Z

Link: CVE-2022-4652

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:48:39.560Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-13T17:15:11.933

Modified: 2025-02-27T21:15:16.310

Link: CVE-2022-4652

Redhat

No data.

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