Description
The Sidebar Widgets by CodeLights WordPress plugin through 1.4 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 a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, which could be used against high-privilege users such as admins.
Published: 2023-01-16
Score: 5.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-51804 The Sidebar Widgets by CodeLights WordPress plugin through 1.4 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 a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, which could be used against high-privilege users such as admins.
History

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Subscriptions

Codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets Project Codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-04T17:50:45.561Z

Reserved: 2022-12-13T20:35:08.385Z

Link: CVE-2022-4460

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:44.570Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-16T16:15:12.097

Modified: 2025-04-04T18:15:44.720

Link: CVE-2022-4460

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.