CVE-2026-6399 PUBLISHED

General Options <= 1.1.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'ad_contact_number' Parameter

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 15.04.2026 Published: 20.05.2026 Updated: 20.05.2026

The General Options plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 1.1.0. This is due to the use of sanitize_text_field() for output escaping in the Contact Number (ad_contact_number) field — a function that strips HTML tags but does not encode double-quote characters to their HTML entity equivalent ("). When the stored value is echoed inside a double-quoted HTML attribute (value="..."), an attacker-supplied double-quote character breaks out of the attribute context. Even with WordPress's wp_magic_quotes mechanism (which prefixes quotes with a backslash), the resulting \" sequence is NOT treated as an escaped quote by HTML parsers — the backslash is rendered as a literal character and the bare double-quote still closes the attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Administrator-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in the admin settings page that will execute whenever any administrator visits the General Options settings page.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.4

Product Status

Vendor yog2515
Product General Options
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.1.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Muhammad Nur Ibnu Hubab finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE