Cross-site scripting in cbednarek fyyd podcast shortcodes
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 fyyd podcast shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fyyd-podcast', 'fyyd-episode', and 'fyyd' shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 0.3.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes such as 'color', 'podcast_id', and 'podcast_slug'. These attributes are directly concatenated into inline JavaScript within single-quoted string arguments without any escaping or sanitization, allowing an attacker to break out of the JavaScript string context. 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-2026-4084
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fm6h-hmg3-46c3
References
Other 13
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3f9d57ae-b238-43db-8eee-ccab499b1cbc?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/trunk/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L65
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/tags/0.3.1/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L65
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/trunk/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L48
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/tags/0.3.1/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L48
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/trunk/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L60
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/tags/0.3.1/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L60
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/trunk/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L100
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/tags/0.3.1/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L100
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/trunk/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L224
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/tags/0.3.1/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L224
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/trunk/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L141
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes/tags/0.3.1/fyyd-podcast-shortcodes.php#L141
Sources
- CVE-2026-4084 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-4084 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fm6h-hmg3-46c3 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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