CVE-2026-4082

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Description

The ER Swiffy Insert plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the [swiffy] shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.0.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes ('n', 'w', 'h'). These attributes are extracted using extract() and directly interpolated into the HTML output without any escaping such as esc_attr(). 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/074d9712-9b26-47da-9e24-49854fd7257c?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/trunk/er-swiffy-insert.php#L56

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/trunk/er-swiffy-insert.php#L49

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/tags/1.0.0/er-swiffy-insert.php#L56

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/tags/1.0.0/er-swiffy-insert.php#L49

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-22

Updated: 2026-04-22

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: 0.00011