CVE-2022-4699

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2022-4699 · Published 30/01/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-4699 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting mediaelement.js (mediaelementjs).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.53%, higher than 45.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mediaelement.js mediaelementjs	`≤ 4.2.8`	No fix yet

Description

The MediaElement.js WordPress plugin through 4.2.8 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/e57f38d9-889a-4f82-b20d-3676ccf9c6f9 · Exploit

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