CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-4067
The Ad Short plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'ad' shortcode's 'client' attribute in all versions up to and including 2.0.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the 'client' shortcode attribute. The ad_func() shortcode handler at line 71 accepts a 'client' attribute via shortcode_atts() and directly concatenates it into a double-quoted HTML attribute (data-ad-client) at line 130 without applying esc_attr() or any other sa
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Ad Short","vendor":"nocaredev","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.0.1","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
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Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":6.4,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
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CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-79","description":"CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
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Source references
5 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ad-short/tags/2.0.1/ad_short.php#L130"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ad-short/tags/2.0.1/ad_short.php#L77"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:d3c65ac8ce6cc3f008763dbc72a18910b7c9ebf484483963bb48949070a49797 · sha256:1d33dd9a7f2481be… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ad-short/trunk/ad_short.php#L130"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ad-short/trunk/ad_short.php#L77"}
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{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/313d2749-7662-4870-b0f7-19253797f833?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:d3c65ac8ce6cc3f008763dbc72a18910b7c9ebf484483963bb48949070a49797 · sha256:1d33dd9a7f2481be… · /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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