Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-4788

Description

The Embed PDF WordPress plugin through 1.0.6 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/PDF Embeddercpe-rescue
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-embedder
WordPress/Embed PDFllm-create
Range: <=1.0.6

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/2a162365-5a86-423d-b7c4-55c9b4d8b024nvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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