CVE-2026-9148
Comments <= 7.6.56 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Website' Field
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
CISA's decision points: whether it is exploited, whether attacks can be automated, and how much control an attacker gets. Assessed (SSVC 2.0.3).What do these mean? →
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: yes
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the guest commenter 'Website' field in versions up to, and including, 7.6.56 This is due to insufficient output escaping in the getCommentAuthor() function, which interpolates the stored comment_author_url value directly into single-quoted HTML attributes without applying esc_url() or esc_attr(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- advancedcoding Comments – wpDiscuz
through 7.6.56
References 11
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/wpdiscuz/tags/7.6.54/utils/class.WpdiscuzHelper.php#L1619
- browser/wpdiscuz/tags/7.6.54/utils/class.WpdiscuzHelper.php#L1615
- browser/wpdiscuz/tags/7.6.54/forms/wpdFormAttr/Field/DefaultField/Website.php#L119
- browser/wpdiscuz/tags/7.6.54/forms/wpdFormAttr/Tools/Sanitizer.php#L14
- browser/wpdiscuz/tags/7.6.48/utils/class.WpdiscuzHelper.php#L1619
- browser/wpdiscuz/tags/7.6.48/utils/class.WpdiscuzHelper.php#L1615
- browser/wpdiscuz/tags/7.6.48/forms/wpdFormAttr/Field/DefaultField/Website.php#L119
- browser/wpdiscuz/tags/7.6.48/forms/wpdFormAttr/Tools/Sanitizer.php#L14
- changeset/3563675/wpdiscuz/trunk/utils/class.WpdiscuzHelper.php
- changeset?old_path=%2Fwpdiscuz/tags/7.6.56&new_path=%2Fwpdiscuz/tags/7.6.57