CVE-2022-4629: Product Slider for WooCommerce < 2.6.4 - Contributor+ Stored XSS in Shortcode

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: 2023-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Product Slider for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.6.4 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.

Affected products

Product Slider for WooCommerce: before 2.6.4 — fixed in 2.6.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Product Slider for WooCommerce 2.6.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cf0a51f9-21d3-4ae8-b7d2-361921038fe8
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cf0a51f9-21d3-4ae8-b7d2-361921038fe8

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