WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Prismatic < 3.7.4 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'prismatic_encoded' Pseudo-Shortcode

Description

The Prismatic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'prismatic_encoded' pseudo-shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.3. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the 'prismatic_decode' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page by submitting a comment containing a crafted 'prismatic_encoded' pseudo-shortcode.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 3.7.4

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-04-15 (about 2 months ago)
Added
2026-04-15 (about 2 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-04-16 (about 2 months ago)

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