CVE-2026-120019

medium

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. This requires HTML Minify to be enabled with the default 'mfunc' entry present in the ignored-comment stems list, and exploitation depends on the attacker predicting the md5(time()) placeholder namespace by reading the server clock via the HTTP Date response header within the applicable time window.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3a14a537-64e7-415b-be8e-a3a9377fd20d?source=cve

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

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.7/lib/Minify/Minify/IgnoredCommentPreserver.php#L25

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.7/lib/Minify/Minify/IgnoredCommentPreserver.php#L10

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.7/Minify_Plugin.php#L625

https://github.com/BoldGrid/w3-total-cache/commit/35c6896332aff6b41888db0595cf09b4c98c814c

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-114597

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-31

Updated: 2026-11-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00221