CVE-2026-10553 PUBLISHED

jQuery Hover Footnotes <= 1.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 01.06.2026 Published: 09.06.2026 Updated: 09.06.2026

The jQuery Hover Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the jqFootnotes_options_subpanel function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings with arbitrary values that, because option values such as jqfoot_anchor_open, jqfoot_anchor_close, and jqfoot_title are echoed unescaped into frontend page content, can be chained into persistent Cross-Site Scripting affecting all site visitors via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Successful exploitation of the CSRF vulnerability can be chained into stored Cross-Site Scripting, as the overwritten option values are persisted via update_option() without sanitization and rendered unescaped on the frontend.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor weaverlancegmailcom
Product jQuery Hover Footnotes
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.4 (incl.)

Credits

  • nishida azuka finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) CWE