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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2022-4761 EUVD-2022-52059GHSA-4c5q-83qw-92cx

Post Views Count <= 3.0.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS in Shortcode

Published Feb 21, 2023 · Updated Mar 12, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Description

The Post Views Count WordPress plugin through 3.0.2 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

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Post Views Count (Support caching plugins!) ≤ 3.0.2 —

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