WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

CC Child Pages < 2.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'child_pages' Shortcode

Description

The CC Child Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'child_pages' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on four user-supplied attributes (use_custom_link, use_custom_link_target, use_custom_thumbs, and use_custom_excerpt) in the 'show_child_pages' function. 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 2.0.1

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Muhammad Yudha - DJ
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-12-15 (about 5 months ago)
Added
2025-12-15 (about 5 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-12-15 (about 5 months ago)

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