CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-4004
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-03-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
The Task Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution via the 'search' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.2. This is due to missing capability checks in the callback_search() function and insufficient input validation that allows shortcode syntax (square brackets) to pass through sanitize_text_field() and be concatenated into a do_shortcode() call. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes on the site by injecting shortcode syntax into parameters like 'task_id', 'point_id', 'categories_id', or 'term'.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/tags/3.0.2/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L29 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/tags/3.0.2/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L46 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/tags/3.0.2/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L75 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/trunk/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L29 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/trunk/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L46 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/trunk/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L75 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e3a902a6-c16f-4e0a-a13a-defb93754c92?source=cve www.wordfence.com