CVE-2026-4011
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
15/04/2026
Last modified:
15/04/2026
Description
The Power Charts Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' parameter of the [pc] shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the 'id' shortcode attribute. Specifically, in the pc_shortcode() function, the 'id' attribute is extracted from user-supplied shortcode attributes and directly concatenated into an HTML div element's class attribute without any escaping or sanitization at line 62. The resulting HTML is then passed through html_entity_decode() before being returned, further undermining any potential safety. 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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpgo-power-charts-lite/tags/0.1.0/classes/power-charts-shortcodes.php#L40
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpgo-power-charts-lite/tags/0.1.0/classes/power-charts-shortcodes.php#L62
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpgo-power-charts-lite/trunk/classes/power-charts-shortcodes.php#L40
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpgo-power-charts-lite/trunk/classes/power-charts-shortcodes.php#L62
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ea41d391-ba8d-43d9-8eda-69ac28c49328?source=cve



