CVE-2022-4786

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2022-4786 · Published 21/02/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-4786 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting video.js (video.js project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.47%, higher than 41.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
video.js video.js_project	`≤ 4.5.0`	No fix yet

Description

The Video.js WordPress plugin through 4.5.0 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/fdad356f-cae4-4390-9a62-605201cee0c0 · Exploit

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