CVE-2022-4459

5.4 mediumEPSS 0.7%

Medium (5.4) in wp show posts project wp show posts. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Show Posts WordPress plugin before 1.1.4 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 contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

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

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 52% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
Published: 2023-02-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

wp_show_posts_project:wp_show_posts

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3ef4783b-4e4a-4691-b858-a7fa8dada4ec
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3ef4783b-4e4a-4691-b858-a7fa8dada4ec

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