CVE-2026-3362

The Short Comment Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Minimum Count' settings field in all versions up to and including 2.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization (no sanitize callback on register_setting) and missing output escaping (no esc_attr() on the echoed value in the input's value attribute). The option value is stored via update_option() and rendered unescaped in an HTML attribute context. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in the settings page that will execute whenever a user accesses that page. This is particularly impactful in WordPress multisite installations or when DISALLOW_UNFILTERED_HTML is set, where administrators are not granted the unfiltered_html capability.

• CWE-79

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-comment-filter/tags/2.2/classes/short-comment-filter-settings.php#L21
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-comment-filter/tags/2.2/classes/short-comment-filter-settings.php#L54
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-comment-filter/tags/2.2/classes/short-comment-filter-settings.php#L61
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-comment-filter/tags/2.2/views/settings.php#L25
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-comment-filter/trunk/classes/short-comment-filter-settings.php#L21
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-comment-filter/trunk/classes/short-comment-filter-settings.php#L54
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-comment-filter/trunk/classes/short-comment-filter-settings.php#L61
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-comment-filter/trunk/views/settings.php#L25
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ba46475-bf54-49a8-9b0e-fae3fb4e1df9?source=cve

Published

Apr 22, 2026

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Deferred

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