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Image Hover Effects < 5.5 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Published Dec 12, 2022

Description

The Image Hover Effects WordPress plugin before 5.5 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, 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).

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner WPScan
Published Dec 12, 2022
Updated Apr 22, 2025
Reserved Nov 16, 2022

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Apr 22, 2025

NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner WPScan
Published Dec 12, 2022
Updated Apr 22, 2025

GitHub

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