Text Toggle <= 1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'title' Shortcode Attribute
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Text Toggle plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title' shortcode attribute of the [tt_part] and [tt] shortcodes in all versions up to and including 1.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. Specifically, in the avp_texttoggle_part_shortcode() function, the 'title' attribute is extracted from shortcode attributes and concatenated directly into HTML output without any escaping — both within an HTML attribute context (title="...") on line 116 and in HTML content on line 119. While the 'class' attribute is properly validated using ctype_alnum(), the 'title' attribute has no sanitization whatsoever. An attacker can inject double-quote characters to break out of the title attribute and inject arbitrary HTML attributes including event handlers. 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hoosierdragon | Text Toggle | up to 1.1 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Text Toggle Vendorhoosierdragon Affected up to 1.1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-3997
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m3x9-6r4v-vvcw
References
Other 9
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7ac0683-120f-4e76-9d44-5ee1c789b2c8?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/trunk/avp-texttoggle.php#L116
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/tags/1.1/avp-texttoggle.php#L116
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/trunk/avp-texttoggle.php#L119
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/tags/1.1/avp-texttoggle.php#L119
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/trunk/avp-texttoggle.php#L108
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/tags/1.1/avp-texttoggle.php#L108
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/trunk/avp-texttoggle.php#L72
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/tags/1.1/avp-texttoggle.php#L72
Sources
- CVE-2026-3997 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-3997 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-m3x9-6r4v-vvcw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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