WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Comments < 7.6.57 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Website' Field

Description

The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the guest commenter 'Website' field in versions up to, and including, 7.6.56 This is due to insufficient output escaping in the getCommentAuthor() function, which interpolates the stored comment_author_url value directly into single-quoted HTML attributes without applying esc_url() or esc_attr(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 7.6.57

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
mickeyjoe
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-07-02 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-07-02 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-12 (about 4 days ago)

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