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CVE-2026-119178VulnerabilityPublished

The Smart Cookie Kit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter in

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-119178· Medium 5.4

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.4 Medium.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026, 13:23 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
5.4Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

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CVSS scores by source
CNA (Wordfence)CVSS 3.15.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 6 Nov 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 6 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
shark986Smart Cookie KitAffected
  • <=2.3.2
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Users should apply any available updates from the plugin vendor once released. Until then, administrators should exercise caution when approving comments and consider disabling or restricting comment functionality in the plugin to prevent exploitation.

Description

The Smart Cookie Kit WordPress plugin up to version 2.3.2 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) via the 'comment' parameter. This vulnerability arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts. Exploitation requires an administrator to approve the malicious comment and then view the affected post, triggering script execution.

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