CVE-2022-4783 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Youtube Channel Gallery WordPress plugin through 2.4 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
Youtube Channel Gallery Project	Youtube Channel Gallery

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:youtube_channel_gallery_project:youtube_channel_gallery:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/38e4c7fe-94d5-48b9-8659-e114cbbb4252

History

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +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: 2023-02-13T14:32:00.140Z

Updated: 2025-03-21T14:37:51.079Z

Reserved: 2022-12-28T10:10:13.614Z

Link: CVE-2022-4783

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:48:40.579Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-13T15:15:19.980

Modified: 2025-03-21T15:15:39.163

Link: CVE-2022-4783

Redhat

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