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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2022-4542 EUVD-2022-51877GHSA-v234-jrgr-8q98

Compact WP Audio Player < 1.9.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Published Jan 23, 2023 · Updated Apr 3, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Description

The Compact WP Audio Player WordPress plugin before 1.9.8 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Compact WP Audio Player < 1.9.8 1.9.8

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