CVE-2022-4717

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2022-4717 · Published 06/02/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-4717 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting strong testimonials (machothemes).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.65%, higher than 51.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.0.3 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
strong testimonials machothemes	`< 3.0.3`	`3.0.3`

Description

The Strong Testimonials WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 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.

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/14b679f5-44a8-46d4-89dd-94eb647cb672 · Exploit

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