WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Advanced Excerpt < 4.5 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Ellipsis Setting
Description
The plugin does not sanitise and escape one of its settings before outputting it on the front end of the site, which could allow administrators (including those without the unfiltered_html capability, such as on multisite) to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that execute in the context of any visitor viewing affected pages.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Mustafa Ahmed
Submitter
Mustafa Ahmed
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-08-06 (about 4 days ago)
Added
2026-08-06 (about 3 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-08-06 (about 3 days ago)