CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-6255
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-05-05
- 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-79
Description
The Simple Owl Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'num' attribute of the 'owls_wrapper' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-owl-shortcodes/tags/2.1.1/inc/owls_wrapper.php#L11 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-owl-shortcodes/trunk/inc/owls_wrapper.php#L11 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e33a2f27-20c2-4963-9558-1eead0515690?source=cve www.wordfence.com