CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-109216
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-10-29
- Last modified
- 2026-10-29
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The Meta Box – A Framework for Dynamic Websites plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'profile_background[<attacker-chosen key>]' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.15.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitability depends on a consuming plugin or theme built on Meta Box that exposes the background field to lower-privileged users and renders stored values via the rwmb_the_value()/format_single_value() pattern; the effective minimum privilege is whatever role that consumer permits, demonstrated at Subscriber level.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/wpmetabox/meta-box/pull/1709 github.com
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meta-box/tags/5.15.2/inc/fields/background.php#L154 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meta-box/tags/5.15.2/inc/sanitizer.php#L170 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meta-box/tags/5.15.3/inc/fields/background.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a8948f5-8bcf-48f2-b3a6-bfa24ba9bef0?source=cve www.wordfence.com