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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2022-4626 EUVD-2022-51956GHSA-5jh4-frmf-hxhf

PPWP – WordPress Password Protect Page < 1.8.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS in Shortcode

Published Feb 6, 2023 · Updated Mar 25, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Description

The PPWP WordPress plugin before 1.8.6 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
— PPWP < 1.8.6 1.8.6

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