WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Optimole < 4.2.12 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Srcset Descriptor Parameter
Description
The plugin does not properly escape a user supplied value before using it to build an image tag attribute, allowing unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary attributes into pages served to every visitor, which leads to Stored Cross-Site Scripting.
The escaping added in 4.2.3 for CVE-2026-5217 does not cover the context the value is finally used in, so releases from 4.2.3 onwards remain affected.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Jakub Herman
Submitter
Jakub Herman
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-09-14 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-09-14 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-14 (about 1 day ago)