CVE-2024-1712: The Carousel Slider WordPress plugin before 2.2.7 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

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

The Carousel Slider WordPress plugin before 2.2.7 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

Package
carousel-slider (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<2.2.7
Fixed in
2.2.7
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.7
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (41.6th percentile)
Published
2024-04-15
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
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