CVE-2022-4671

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2022-4671 · Published 30/01/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-4671 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting pixcodes (pixelgrade).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.47%, higher than 40.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.3.7 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pixcodes pixelgrade	`< 2.3.7`	`2.3.7`

Description

The PixCodes WordPress plugin before 2.3.7 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 admins.

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/14c83830-3207-4f92-b8f5-afd7cc93af88 · Exploit

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