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CVE-2026-4004

The Task Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution via the 'search' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.2. This is due to missing capability checks in the callback_search() function and insufficient input validation that allows shortcode syntax (square brackets) to pass through sanitize_text_field() and be concatenated into a do_shortcode() call. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to exec
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:faec925fc230d1d2158f47cfb588017126db1d3f3738d37710121ce4402072db
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Task Manager","vendor":"eoxia","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"3.0.2","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":6.5,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-94","description":"CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

7 source assertions
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/tags/3.0.2/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L29"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/tags/3.0.2/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L46"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/tags/3.0.2/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L75"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/trunk/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L29"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/trunk/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L46"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/task-manager/trunk/module/navigation/action/navigation.action.php#L75"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e3a902a6-c16f-4e0a-a13a-defb93754c92?source=cve"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:b993e227dedcd390006d95944a8aa81fa7eb715cc2b67c1aa2949bc8ef244d97 · sha256:ad2356dbb9eb17bd… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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