CVE-2022-2823

MEDIUM

Published Oct 10, 20223y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago

4.8 CVSS 3.1

Medium

Published Oct 10, 2022 3y ago

Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

The Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider WordPress plugin before 3.27.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its Gallery Image parameters, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

CVSS Details

Base Score

4.8

Exploitability

1.7

Impact

2.7

Vector string

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

User Interaction Required

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

Availability None

Threat Intelligence

No active exploitation signals — not in CISA KEV and no EPSS score yet.

Exploit & Patch Status

Public Exploit Known

No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting Injection

Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Version	Range
metaslider	slider\,_gallery\,_and_carousel	*	<3.27.9

References 1

wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c88c85b3-2830-4354-99fd-af6bce6bb4ef

ExploitThird Party Advisory

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.