CVE-2022-4829 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Show-Hide / Collapse-Expand WordPress plugin before 1.3.0 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Show-hide \/ Collapse-expand Project	Show-hide \/ Collapse-expand

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:show-hide_\/_collapse-expand_project:show-hide_\/_collapse-expand:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/57e528ce-ec8c-4734-8903-926be36f91e7

History

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-02-27T15:24:29.354Z

Updated: 2025-03-10T18:10:46.305Z

Reserved: 2022-12-29T08:42:49.297Z

Link: CVE-2022-4829

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:55:45.912Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-27T16:15:11.493

Modified: 2025-03-10T19:15:36.653

Link: CVE-2022-4829

Redhat

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