Stored cross-site scripting in Retainful WordPress plugin
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 Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce (Retainful) plugin is affected in all versions up to and including 1.0.10. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'data' parameter lets injected script code be stored (CWE-79). An authenticated attacker with subscriber-level access or higher can inject arbitrary web scripts that run whenever a user opens an affected page.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Description from the CNA
The Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce – Retainful plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.10 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-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
The sources list no fixed version for Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce (Retainful).
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Timeline
- 2026-10-10 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-97396
- 2026-10-10 Alias added: GHSA-cxvw-p5qh-8cw3
- 2026-10-11 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-11 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d2baf5d-a8a6-41db-8364-3a4b166b81cb?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/retainful/tags/1.0.9/App/Controllers/RestApi.php#L991
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/retainful/tags/1.0.9/App/Helpers/Auth.php#L68
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/retainful/tags/1.0.9/App/Controllers/RestApi.php#L382
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/retainful/tags/1.0.9/App/Controllers/Store/Common.php#L62
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3728354/retainful/trunk/App/Controllers/RestApi.php
Sources
- CVE-2026-97396 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-97396 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-cxvw-p5qh-8cw3 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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