WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

FAQ Builder AYS 1.6.3 - 1.8.4 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via ays_get_user_information

Description

The plugin does not sanitize or escape content submitted by unauthenticated visitors before storing it and outputting it in an admin area page, and the escaping it does apply is undone by a subsequent decoding step, leading to Stored XSS which will execute in the context of a logged in administrator.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.8.5

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Pablo González Pérez, Francisco José Ramírez Vicente and Iñigo Sánchez Enciso
Submitter
Pablo González Pérez, Francisco José Ramírez Vicente and Iñigo Sánchez Enciso
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-08-31 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-08-31 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-01 (about 8 hours ago)

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