WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

APCu Manager < 4.5.0 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Cache Key Pollution

Description

The plugin does not escape APCu object-cache keys before rendering them in an admin-area page, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. When a persistent object cache is enabled, cache keys derived from unsanitised user input (e.g. a transient name created by another plugin from an unauthenticated request) are output without escaping and execute arbitrary JavaScript in the session of an administrator viewing the page.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.5.0

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Alessandro Greco aka Aleff, Giovanbattista Ianni (University of Calabria - UNICAL)
Submitter
Alessandro Greco aka Aleff
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-06-08 (about 21 days ago)
Added
2026-06-08 (about 20 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-06-27 (about 1 day ago)

Other