CVE-2026-111254

high

Description

The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires that a Pro license was previously active with REST caching enabled and has since become inactive while Disk Enhanced page caching remains configured, and that the attacker holds a previously approved commenter identity.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0169909e-c6cd-4d08-8301-5e09fce4429c?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3757452/w3-total-cache/trunk/PgCache_ContentGrabber.php

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.7/PgCache_ContentGrabber.php#L1719

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.7/PgCache_ContentGrabber.php#L1450

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.7/Licensing_Plugin_Admin.php#L928

https://github.com/BoldGrid/w3-total-cache/commit/7168b0d7cc80e827ad234a0428ab3ecdbef3c107

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-114591

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-31

Updated: 2026-11-01

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: 0.00307