CVE-2026-2430

Description

The Autoptimize plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the lazy-loading image processing in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.14. This is due to the use of an overly permissive regular expression in the `add_lazyload` function that replaces all occurrences of `\ssrc=` in image tags without limiting to the actual attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page by crafting an image tag where the `src` URL contains a space followed by `src=`, causing the regex to break the HTML structure and promote text inside attribute values into executable HTML attributes.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ddc5c4d7-09dc-45bf-a3c7-5a0757e3110a?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3482530%40autoptimize&new=3482530%40autoptimize&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/autoptimize/trunk/classes/autoptimizeImages.php#L987

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/autoptimize/tags/3.1.14/classes/autoptimizeImages.php#L987

https://github.com/futtta/autoptimize/commit/a0f87112fe80b5a97b036229c41cb18454392858

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS