What is CVE-2022-3985?

CVE-2022-3985 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wphowto Videojs Html5 Player, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2022-12-19.

How severe is CVE-2022-3985?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-3985 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Wphowto Videojs Html5 Player

CVE-2022-3985

The Videojs HTML5 Player WordPress plugin before 1.1.9 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

Published 2022-12-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (38.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 39th percentile — 38.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Wphowto Videojs Html5 Player
Videojs Html5 Player — versions 0

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/58f82e13-153e-41e8-a22b-a2e96b46a6dc (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-3985?: CVE-2022-3985 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wphowto Videojs Html5 Player, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2022-12-19.
How severe is CVE-2022-3985?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-3985 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.