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CVE-2022-4488: Widgets on Pages < 1.8.0 - 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 Widgets on Pages WordPress plugin before 1.8.0 does not validate and escape 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

• Widgets on Pages: through 1.6.0

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e52c18a9-550a-40b1-a413-0e06e5b4aabc
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e52c18a9-550a-40b1-a413-0e06e5b4aabc

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