News & Blog Designer Pack < 3.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

Published 3 y ago 2023-01-30 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

5.4

v3.1 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.4%

percentile 38%

Public exploits

none known

The News & Blog Designer Pack WordPress plugin before 3.3 does not validate and escape one of its shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack.

CISA SSVC assessment

Exploitation: Proof of concept public
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 19 mo ago 2025-03-27

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.44% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CISA ADP	3.1	5.4	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`
NVD	3.1	5.4	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`
CNA	3.1	5.4	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`

Affected products

Unknown News & Blog Designer Pack

References

wpscan.com /vulnerability/13304aca-0722-4bd9-b443-a5fed1ce22da · exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2022-4792
NVD: CVE-2022-4792

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