CVE-2026-4076
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
22/04/2026
Last modified:
22/04/2026
Description
The Slider Bootstrap Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'category' and 'template' shortcode attributes in all versions up to and including 1.0.7. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. The plugin uses extract() on shortcode_atts() to parse attributes, then directly outputs the $category variable into multiple HTML attributes (id, data-target, href) on lines 38, 47, 109, and 113 without applying esc_attr(). Similarly, the $template attribute flows into a class attribute on line 93 without escaping. 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/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L109
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L113
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L38
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L47
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L7
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L93
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L109
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L113
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L38
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L47
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L7
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L93
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/26fe0b7b-dbf8-467f-b5e2-86a858eeaf89?source=cve



