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

EPSS: 0.005 (38.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Wphowto Videojs_html5_player
Unknown Videojs Html5 Player — versions 0

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (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.