# CVE-2026-4074: Quran Live Multilanguage \<= 1.0.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

- 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: 2026-04-22 · Updated: 2026-04-22

## Affected

- karim42 Quran Live Multilanguage: through 1.0.3

## Description

The Quran Live Multilanguage plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'cheikh' and 'lang' shortcode attributes in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. The quran_live_render() function of quran-live.php receives shortcode attributes and passes them directly through shortcode_atts() and extract() without any sanitization. These values are then passed to Render_Quran_Live::render_verse_quran_live() where they are echoed directly into inline <script> blocks using PHP short tags (<?=$cheikh;?> and <?=$lang;?>) at lines 191, 216, 217, 245, and 246 of Class_QuranLive.php. Since the output occurs inside a JavaScript context within <script> tags, an attacker can break out of the JavaScript string and inject arbitrary script code. 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 karim42 Quran Live Multilanguage, 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/883484dd-d48d-46f9-ae96-223626c50039?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/trunk/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L191
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/tags/1.0.3/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L191
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/trunk/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L217
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/tags/1.0.3/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L217
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/trunk/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L246
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/tags/1.0.3/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L246
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/trunk/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L216
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/tags/1.0.3/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L216
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/trunk/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L245
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/tags/1.0.3/inc/Class_QuranLive.php#L245
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/trunk/quran-live.php#L110
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quran-live/tags/1.0.3/quran-live.php#L110

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