CVE-2022-4826: Simple Tooltips Project Simple Tooltips

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Simple Tooltips WordPress plugin before 2.1.4 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

• Simple Tooltips Project Simple Tooltips: before 2.1.4 (fixed in 2.1.4)

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