CVE-2026-4086

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Description

The WP Random Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'cat', 'nocat', and 'text' shortcode attributes of the 'wp_random_button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. Specifically, the random_button_html() function directly concatenates the 'cat' and 'nocat' parameters into HTML data-attributes without esc_attr(), and the 'text' parameter into HTML content without esc_html(). 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/0b9e11f5-5a05-4867-abd8-fb07c84a49b0?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-random-button/trunk/wp-random-button.php#L50

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-random-button/trunk/wp-random-button.php#L46

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-random-button/tags/1.0/wp-random-button.php#L50

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-random-button/tags/1.0/wp-random-button.php#L46

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-21

Updated: 2026-03-21

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: 0.00032