WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites < 5.0.32 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'moreResultsText' Block Attribute

Description

The Ultimate Post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'moreResultsText' block attribute of the ultimate-post/advanced-search block in versions up to and including 5.0.31. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Advanced_Search::content() render callback: the attribute value is filtered with wp_kses(), which strips disallowed HTML tags but does NOT escape HTML special characters such as double quotes in plain text, and the result is then concatenated directly into the data-viewmoretext HTML attribute without 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.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.0.32

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
PRISM
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-07-08 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-07-08 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-09 (about 3 months ago)

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