WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Optimole 4.0.0 - 4.2.12 - Author+ Stored XSS via Video Player Block
Description
The plugin does not escape unrecognized attributes of its video-player block before rendering them onto the block's wrapper element, allowing users with the Author role and above to store an event-handler attribute that executes scripts in the browser of any user, such as an administrator, who views the post.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Submitter
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-09-24 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-09-24 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-24 (about 1 day ago)