CVE-2022-3984

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2022-3984 · Published 19/12/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-3984 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting flowplayer video player (wphowto).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.50%, higher than 42.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.0.5 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
flowplayer video player wphowto	`< 1.0.5`	`1.0.5`

Description

The Flowplayer Video Player WordPress plugin before 1.0.5 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

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/b4694e9d-3f38-4295-929d-0ad37b3cbbaa · Exploit

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