WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
W3 Total Cache < 2.10.7 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Comment Content
Description
The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via comment content, due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in its output-buffer regex rewrite, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is only exploitable when the 'Remove query strings from static resources' option is enabled, as mutate_url() must strip the '?' delimiter and everything following it, including the closing quote of the outer attribute, to break the attribute boundary.
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
theviper17y
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-10-01 (about 16 days ago)
Added
2026-10-02 (about 15 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-02 (about 15 days ago)