CVE-2026-1074

high

Description

The WP App Bar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'app-bar-features' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping combined with a missing authorization check in the `App_Bar_Settings` class constructor. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into multiple plugin settings that will execute whenever a user accesses the admin settings page.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9b448712-b989-453f-9acb-5556e01e41a4?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-app-bar/trunk/includes/class-app-bar-settings.php#L89

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-app-bar/tags/1.5/includes/class-app-bar-settings.php#L89

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-07

Updated: 2026-04-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00061