CVE-2022-4578 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Video Conferencing with Zoom WordPress plugin before 4.0.10 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.

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
Video Conferencing With Zoom Project	Video Conferencing With Zoom

Configuration 1 [-]

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fad16c68-9f14-4866-b241-40468fb71494

History

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +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: 2023-01-16T15:38:08.777Z

Updated: 2025-04-08T20:10:58.814Z

Reserved: 2022-12-16T22:03:13.656Z

Link: CVE-2022-4578

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:45.671Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-16T16:15:13.510

Modified: 2025-04-08T20:15:18.993

Link: CVE-2022-4578

Redhat

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