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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2022-4834 EUVD-2022-52111GHSA-r5qh-v9fc-6p5v

CPT Bootstrap Carousel <= 1.12 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

Published Jan 30, 2023 · Updated Mar 27, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Description

The CPT Bootstrap Carousel WordPress plugin through 1.12 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
— CPT Bootstrap Carousel ≤ 1.12 —

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