CVE-2022-4672

WordPress Simple Shopping Cart < 4.6.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart WordPress plugin before 4.6.2 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

WordPress Simple Shopping Cart

CVSS v3.1 NVD

5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 44th percentile

Published

2023-01-23

Updated

2025-04-02

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6500271f-9d1c-40ed-be58-a6cea8d1110d

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry