WordPress Vulnerabilities
WP 5.0 - 7.1.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Customizer Selective Refresh
Description
WordPress does not safely handle a stored selector value during Customizer selective refresh in some cases, which could allow users with contributor-level access and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks in an administrator's Customizer session on sites using a classic theme.
Affects WordPress
References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Rafie Muhammad
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-10-29 (about 1 day ago)
Added
2026-10-29 (about 18 hours ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-29 (about 18 hours ago)