CVE-2022-4486: Meteor Slides < 1.5.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Meteor Slides WordPress plugin before 1.5.7 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 products

Meteor Slides: before 1.5.6 — fixed in 1.5.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Meteor Slides 1.5.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d0afd17c-09cd-4ab5-95a5-6ac8c3c0a50b
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d0afd17c-09cd-4ab5-95a5-6ac8c3c0a50b

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