CVE-2026-8790 PUBLISHED

Football Pool <= 2.13.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 17.05.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 05.08.2026

The Football Pool plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the shouttext POST parameter of the Shoutbox widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.13.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. When a shoutbox form submission fails the nonce check (or shouttext is empty, or the user is unable to save), the raw POST value is echoed back into a <textarea> element using printf('%s', ...) with no HTML escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts in the browser of an authenticated victim (Subscriber-level or higher) who is tricked into submitting a crafted POST request to a page that contains the Shoutbox widget.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.1

Product Status

Vendor antoineh
Product Football Pool
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.13.4 (incl.)

Credits

  • whitesector finder

References

Problem Types

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