Medium CVSS 4.8

Overview

The Post Slider and Post Carousel with Post Vertical Scrolling Widget WordPress plugin before 3.2.10 does not validate and escape some of its Widget options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Risk analysis

This vulnerability is rated 🟡 MEDIUM.

  • CVSS: 4.8 (MEDIUM)
  • Detected tags: wordpress, xss (tag impact: MODERATE)

Recommended actions:

  • Apply context-aware output encoding.
  • Enable Content-Security-Policy and HttpOnly/SameSite cookies.

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