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.
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Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
mickeyjoe
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
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)