CVE-2022-4788: Embed PDF Project Embed PDF

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Embed PDF Project Embed PDF: up to and including 1.0.6

Published 2023-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.