The Post Snippets – Custom WordPress Code Snippets Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via…
CVE-2026-77871
The Post Snippets – Custom WordPress Code Snippets Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. Entity-encoded payloads such as survive WordPress's wpksespost on-save sanitization because kses does not decode HTML entities, and are only converted back into executable HTML tags at render time by the plugin's own shortcode filter. This requires snippet shortcodes to be enabled.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.4 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 28 October 2026
- Last updated
- 29 October 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Assigner
- security@wordfence.com
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
At the source
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.3/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L140
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.3/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L183
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.3/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L29
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.3/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L70
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.4/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L140
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.4/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L183
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.4/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L29
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.4/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L70
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3759640/post-snippets/trunk/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a46c37f4-245d-423f-bdad-296fdf377ecc?source=cve
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