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CVE-2026-78471: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in optimizingmatters Autoptimize

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-78471cvecve-2026-78471cwe-79
Published: 10/02/2026 (10/02/2026, 05:30:18 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: optimizingmatters
Product: Autoptimize

Description

The Autoptimize plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.15.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires an administrator to have enabled Autoptimize's 'Lazy-load images?' option, the w3-total-cache/w3-total-cache.php file to be present on disk with the plugin disabled, a class named Minify_HTML to be loaded into scope by another plugin, and the malicious comment to be approved by a moderator before the payload renders.

CVSS v3.1

Score 5.4medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected software

optimizingmatters

Autoptimize

Affected versions
>=0 <=3.1.15.1

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
Wordfence
Date Reserved
2026-08-24T16:49:16.127Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6abf453da43b0b3b89764bc3

Added to database: 10/02/2026, 05:46:37 UTC

Last updated: 10/02/2026, 05:46:37 UTC

Views: 1

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