CVE-2026-4082
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 ER Swiffy Insert plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the [swiffy] shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.0.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes ('n', 'w', 'h'). These attributes are extracted using extract() and directly interpolated into the HTML output without any escaping such as esc_attr(). 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/er-swiffy-insert/tags/1.0.0/er-swiffy-insert.php#L49
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/tags/1.0.0/er-swiffy-insert.php#L56
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/trunk/er-swiffy-insert.php#L49
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/trunk/er-swiffy-insert.php#L56
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/074d9712-9b26-47da-9e24-49854fd7257c?source=cve



