CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-3896
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Livemesh SiteOrigin Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `lsow_admin_ajax` AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.2 due to missing authorization checks and insufficient input sanitization. The AJAX handler verifies a nonce but does not check user capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to modify plugin settings and inject malicious scripts that execute when administrators access the plugin settings page or when any user visits the frontend.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/livemesh-siteorigin-widgets/tags/3.9.2/admin/admin-ajax.php#L65 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/livemesh-siteorigin-widgets/tags/3.9.2/admin/views/settings.php#L107 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/livemesh-siteorigin-widgets/tags/3.9.2/includes/helper-functions.php#L235 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1510984-571b-49ce-9e10-129e2a1aca7b?source=cve www.wordfence.com