Responsive Thumbnail Slider < 1.1.53 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'id' Parameter
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Wp Responsive Thumbnail Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' parameter in versions up to, and excluding, 1.1.53. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the responsive_thumbnail_image_management() function, which echoes $_GET['id'] directly into a double-quoted HTML attribute with no esc_attr() call. The only guard is a loose PHP numeric comparison ($_GET['id']>0) that a string beginning with a numeric prefix trivially satisfies, and the addslashes() applied by wp_magic_quotes() is inert in HTML-attribute context because backslash is not an HTML escape character. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a specially crafted link.
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
- Fix · CNA Responsive Thumbnail Slider (nik00726) Fixed in 1.1.53
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-18344
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j3m7-4pfh-6m64
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c7370cbc-f681-49d7-9330-762443202529?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-responsive-thumbnail-slider/trunk/wp-responsive-images-thumbnail-slider.php#L1275
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-responsive-thumbnail-slider/trunk/wp-responsive-images-thumbnail-slider.php#L1274
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Sources
- CVE-2026-18344 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-18344 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-j3m7-4pfh-6m64 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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