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CVE-2026-4730VulnerabilityPublished

The Charts Ninja: Create Beautiful Graphs & Charts and Easily Add Them to Your Website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'chartid' shortcode attribute in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping

Source GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-4730· Medium 6.4

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.4 Medium.

Data as of 27 Oct 2026, 00:07 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
6.4Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 5 May 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: 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 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
commonninjaCharts Ninja: Create Beautiful Graphs & Charts and Easily Add Them to Your WebsiteAffected
  • <=2.1.0
Fixed in–

Description

The Charts Ninja: Create Beautiful Graphs & Charts and Easily Add Them to Your Website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'chartid' shortcode attribute in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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