CVE-2022-1301: WP Contact Slider < 2.4.7 - Editor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-07-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Contact Slider WordPress plugin before 2.4.7 does not sanitize and escape the Text to Display settings of sliders, which could allow high privileged users such as editor and above to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected products

WP Contact Slider: before 2.4.7 — fixed in 2.4.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: WP Contact Slider 2.4.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/69b75983-1010-453e-bf67-27b4a2a327a8
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/69b75983-1010-453e-bf67-27b4a2a327a8

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