CVE-2022-1301: The WP Contact Slider WordPress plugin before 2.4.7 does not sanitize and escape the Text to Display settings of sliders, which could allow high privileged users such as editor and above to perform Cr

medium Affects wp-contact-slider (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The WP Contact Slider WordPress plugin before 2.4.7 does not sanitize and escape the Text to Display settings of sliders, which could allow high privileged users such as editor and above to perform Cr

Package
wp-contact-slider (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<2.4.7
Fixed in
2.4.7
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (48.0th percentile)
Published
2022-07-04
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordwp-contact-slider (WordPress plugin) advisories

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