# CVE-2022-1301: WP Contact Slider < 2.4.7 - Editor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> High-privileged users can inject malicious scripts via slider text settings, bypassing unfiltered_html restrictions in WP Contact Slider.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 Jul 2022
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gjr6-7347-57j6

## What is CVE-2022-1301?

CVE-2022-1301 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown WP Contact Slider, published on 4 Jul 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

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 Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1301?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpexperts Wp Contact Slider.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-1301?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-1301 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-1301 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1301 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown WP Contact Slider

- [CVE-2022-3237](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3237/): WP Contact Slider < 2.4.8 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 4.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-1301 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-1301 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown WP Contact Slider, published on 4 Jul 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1301 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown WP Contact Slider. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1301/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1301/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1301
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1301
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-1301

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1301/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.