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CVE-2026-16066: Welcart e-Commerce (WordPress plugin) · Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Affects Welcart e-Commerce (WordPress plugin)Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.4 Medium : upgrade to 2.11.34 when convenient.

Data as of 9 Nov 2026, 23:24 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
5.4Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 13% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 2.11.34
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 12 Aug 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 9 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Welcart e-Commerce (WordPress plugin) to 2.11.34.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Welcart e-CommerceAffected
  • <2.11.34
Fixed in
  • 2.11.34

AI-suggested

If you cannot patch yet, restrict Author role privileges to trusted users only and consider disabling product editing by non-administrators.

Description

The Welcart e-Commerce WordPress plugin before 2.11.34 does not sanitise or escape a product field before outputting it on the product pages, allowing users with the Author role and above to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in the browser of any visitor viewing the product page.

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