CVE-2022-4699

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4699
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-4699.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-4699
Published
2023-01-30T21:15:11.907Z
Modified
2026-04-10T04:53:04.606840Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The MediaElement.js WordPress plugin through 4.2.8 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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
85f448435b19ecddd27fa38ba38f022ddcd91eda
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.2.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2
1.0.3
1.0.4
1.0.5
1.0.6
1.0.7
1.1
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3
1.1.4
1.1.5
1.1.6
2.*
2.0.0
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0.3
2.0.4
2.0.5
2.0.6
2.12.0
2.13.0
2.13.1
2.13.2
2.14.0
2.15.0
2.15.1
2.16.0
2.16.1
2.16.2
2.16.3
2.16.4
2.17.0
2.18.0
2.18.1
2.18.2
2.19.0
2.20.0
2.20.1
2.21.0
2.21.1
2.21.2
2.22.0
2.22.1
2.23.0
2.23.1
2.23.2
2.23.3
2.23.4
2.23.5
3.*
3.0.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.1.0
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.2.0
3.2.1
3.2.2
3.2.3
3.2.4
4.*
4.0.0
4.0.1
4.0.2
4.0.3
4.0.4
4.0.5
4.0.6
4.0.7
4.1.0
4.1.1
4.1.2
4.1.3
4.2.0
4.2.1
4.2.2
4.2.3
4.2.4
4.2.5
4.2.6
4.2.7
4.2.8

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-4699.json"