CVE-2026-3659

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Description

The WP Circliful plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' shortcode attribute of the [circliful] shortcode and via multiple shortcode attributes of the [circliful_direct] shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. Specifically, in the circliful_shortcode() function, the 'id' attribute value is concatenated directly into an HTML id attribute (line 285) without any escaping, allowing an attacker to break out of the double-quoted attribute and inject arbitrary HTML event handlers. Similarly, the circliful_direct_shortcode() function (line 257) outputs all shortcode attributes directly into HTML data-* attributes without escaping. 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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/030534e2-bf7d-42e4-94a1-986f629bea15?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/trunk/wp-circliful.php#L285

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/trunk/wp-circliful.php#L263

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/trunk/wp-circliful.php#L257

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/trunk/wp-circliful.php#L241

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/tags/1.2/wp-circliful.php#L285

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/tags/1.2/wp-circliful.php#L263

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/tags/1.2/wp-circliful.php#L257

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-circliful/tags/1.2/wp-circliful.php#L241

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-15

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00056