WordPress Vulnerabilities
WP < 7.1.3 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Comment Moderation
Description
WordPress does not properly sanitize and escape some malformed comment content in some cases, which could allow unauthenticated users to store comments that perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks in the context of an administrator moderating them.
Affects WordPress
References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Thomas Chauchefoin (Trail of Bits)
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-10-06 (about 13 days ago)
Added
2026-10-06 (about 12 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-06 (about 12 days ago)