Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 6, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-4670

Description

The PDF.js Viewer WordPress plugin before 2.1.8 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

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Affected products

WordPress/Embed PDF Viewercpe-rescue
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-pdf-viewer
WordPress/PDF Viewerllm-fuzzy
Range: <2.1.8

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/2a67c290-2a27-44fe-95ae-2d427e9d7548nvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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