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CVE-2026-4278

The Simple Download Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'sdc_menu' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.3. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes, specifically the 'text' and 'cat' attributes. The 'text' attribute is output directly into HTML content on line 159 without any escaping (e.g., esc_html()). The 'cat' attribute is used unescaped in HTML class attributes on lines
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:890f3fbeeb8e7d45997466c814e5a66b1a6ac83ff1e5cc39ef64ad18c5530fad
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Simple Download Counter","vendor":"specialk","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.3","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/affected/0

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"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

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"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

10 source assertions
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/tags/2.3/inc/functions-shortcode.php#L135"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/tags/2.3/inc/functions-shortcode.php#L157"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/tags/2.3/inc/functions-shortcode.php#L159"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/tags/2.3/inc/functions-shortcode.php#L92"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/references/8
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/trunk/inc/functions-shortcode.php#L135"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/trunk/inc/functions-shortcode.php#L157"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/trunk/inc/functions-shortcode.php#L159"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-download-counter/trunk/inc/functions-shortcode.php#L92"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/references/7
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3487364%40simple-download-counter&new=3487364%40simple-download-counter&sfp_email=&sfph_mail="}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /containers/cna/references/9
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f23dec73-9031-4829-a84b-4979c8e8ded4?source=cve"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2c22ac99eaa8e376c49376752667cb8b16e11b7f178a701b697f09ab2ca48456 · sha256:098c02cd1b2853b6… · /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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