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CVE-2022-4471: YARPP - Yet Another Related Posts Plugin < 5.30.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The YARPP WordPress plugin before 5.30.3 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

Affected products

• jeffparker YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: through 5.30.1

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c6cf792b-054c-4d77-bcae-3b700f42130b
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c6cf792b-054c-4d77-bcae-3b700f42130b

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