# CVE-2025-9856: Popup Builder – Create highly converting, mobile friendly marketing popups. \<= 4.4.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-13 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- popupbuilder Popup Builder – Create highly converting, mobile friendly marketing popups.: through 4.4.1

## Description

The Popup Builder – Create highly converting, mobile friendly marketing popups. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'sg_popup' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.1 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on popupbuilder Popup Builder – Create highly converting, mobile friendly marketing popups., no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/beb6b26a-3fe1-44e0-9fda-97b288abf735?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/popup-builder/tags/4.4.0/com/helpers/AdminHelper.php#L438
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/popup-builder/tags/4.4.0/com/classes/popups/SGPopup.php#L1368
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3384281

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