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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: visual-portfolio: CVE-2022-2597: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 15, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery and Post Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSS injection via the REST API in versions up to, and including, 2.18.0. This allows authenticated users with contributor or greater privileges to inject arbitrary CSS into saved layouts.

Solution

visual-portfolio-plugin-cve-2022-2597
Title
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