CVE-2026-96572

high

Description

The WP Meteor Website Speed Optimization Addon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.18 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. The payload is delivered via the comment author name field, which must clear WordPress's comment moderation workflow before being displayed, though this represents a display prerequisite rather than any sanitization control.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f54e358c-3bdf-426a-854a-d1bc8ff19afd?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3726637/wp-meteor/trunk/blocker/FirstInteraction/UltimateReorder.php

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3726637

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-meteor/tags/3.4.18/frontend/Rewrite.php#L93

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-meteor/tags/3.4.18/frontend/Rewrite.php#L41

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-meteor/tags/3.4.18/blocker/FirstInteraction/UltimateReorder.php#L178

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-meteor/tags/3.4.18/blocker/FirstInteraction/UltimateReorder.php#L169

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-96207

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-10

Updated: 2026-10-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00241