What is CVE-2022-4465?

CVE-2022-4465 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tipsandtricks-Hq Wp Video Lightbox, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-01-16.

How severe is CVE-2022-4465?

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

Is CVE-2022-4465 known to be exploited?

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

Vulnerability in Tipsandtricks-Hq Wp Video Lightbox

CVE-2022-4465

The WP Video Lightbox WordPress plugin before 1.9.7 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 admin.

EPSS: 0.005 (38.2th 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

Tipsandtricks-hq Wp_video_lightbox
Unknown Wp Video Lightbox — 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-2022-4465?: CVE-2022-4465 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tipsandtricks-Hq Wp Video Lightbox, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-01-16.
How severe is CVE-2022-4465?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-4465 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.