What is CVE-2022-4833?

CVE-2022-4833 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Plugin Yourchannel, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-02-06.

How severe is CVE-2022-4833?

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

Is CVE-2022-4833 known to be exploited?

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

Vulnerability in Plugin Yourchannel

CVE-2022-4833

The YourChannel: Everything you want in a YouTube plugin WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 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.

EPSS: 0.005 (42.8th 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

Plugin Yourchannel
Unknown Yourchannel: Everything You Want In A Youtube Plugin. — 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-2022-4833?: CVE-2022-4833 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Plugin Yourchannel, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-02-06.
How severe is CVE-2022-4833?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-4833 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.