ER Swiffy Insert <= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes
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 ER Swiffy Insert plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the [swiffy] shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.0.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes ('n', 'w', 'h'). These attributes are extracted using extract() and directly interpolated into the HTML output without any escaping such as esc_attr(). 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
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-4082
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f7h9-vgfr-v594
References
Other 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/074d9712-9b26-47da-9e24-49854fd7257c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/trunk/er-swiffy-insert.php#L56
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/tags/1.0.0/er-swiffy-insert.php#L56
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/trunk/er-swiffy-insert.php#L49
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/er-swiffy-insert/tags/1.0.0/er-swiffy-insert.php#L49
Sources
- CVE-2026-4082 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-4082 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f7h9-vgfr-v594 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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