CVE-2026-77871

The Post Snippets – Custom WordPress Code Snippets Customizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. Entity-encoded payloads such as <script>...</script> survive WordPress's wp_kses_post on-save sanitization because kses does not decode HTML entities, and are only converted back into executable HTML tags at render time by the plugin's own shortcode filter. This requires snippet shortcodes to be enabled.

• CWE-79

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.3/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L140
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.3/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L183
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.3/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L29
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.3/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L70
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.4/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L140
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.4/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L183
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.4/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L29
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-snippets/tags/4.2.4/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php#L70
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3759640/post-snippets/trunk/src/PostSnippets/Shortcode.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a46c37f4-245d-423f-bdad-296fdf377ecc?source=cve

Published

Oct 28, 2026

Last Modified

Oct 29, 2026

Status

Deferred

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