CVE-2022-4672 WordPress Simple Shopping Cart < 4.6.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

What is CVE-2022-4672?

CVE-2022-4672 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown WordPress Simple Shopping Cart, published on 23 Jan 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart WordPress plugin before 4.6.2 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-4672?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Tipsandtricks-Hq Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart.

How do I fix CVE-2022-4672?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-4672 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2022-4672 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-4672 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown WordPress Simple Shopping Cart

• CVE-2013-2705 Cross-site request forgery in n/a Medium 6.8
• CVE-2025-3874 WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference Medium 6.5
• CVE-2025-3890 WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Medium 6.4
• CVE-2025-3889 WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference via 'quantity' Medium 5.3
• CVE-2023-1431 Information disclosure in WordPress Simple Shopping Cart Medium 5.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jx46-9ppx-mm7j.