WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Redux Framework < 4.5.14 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS via User Profile Slider Field

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Slider field in User Profile settings. This is due to insufficient input sanitization in the user_meta_save() function (which only sanitizes array values, not scalar values) and improper output escaping in the Redux_Slider::render() method, which outputs slider values into unquoted HTML attributes. The vulnerability also exploits the fact that the clean_default() method only casts values to numeric types when they are empty or out of bounds, allowing malicious strings like '1 tabindex=0 autofocus onfocus=alert(1) x=' to pass validation through PHP's loose type comparison. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts into their user profile that will execute whenever an Administrator navigates to view the attacker's profile page.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.5.14

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
h0xilo
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-09-09 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-09-10 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-16 (about 8 hours ago)

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