Stored cross-site scripting in SureDash plugin for WordPress
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 SureDash (Community, Courses & Member Dashboard) plugin for WordPress is affected in all versions up to and including 1.12.0. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the display_name parameter (CWE-79) let an authenticated attacker with subscriber-level access or above store arbitrary web scripts. The scripts run in a user's browser when that user hovers over a comment's like counter on a community page.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
The SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.0 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. The exploit is triggered when any user hovers over a comment's like counter on a community page, as the plugin's tooltip handler assigns the attacker-controlled data-tooltip-description attribute value directly to innerHTML, re-parsing the browser-decoded entity payload as live HTML.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brainstorm Force | SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard | up to 1.12.0 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard VendorBrainstorm Force Affected up to 1.12.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for SureDash (Community, Courses & Member Dashboard).
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Timeline
- 2026-10-16 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-96870
- 2026-10-16 Alias added: GHSA-rcpx-g8xc-wvvp
References
Other 8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ece14f57-475d-4efc-8daf-52dfdaa12697?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/functions/functions.php#L1037
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/assets/js/minified/common.min.js#L58
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/core/routers/misc.php#L647
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/core/routes.php#L121
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/services/router.php#L127
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/functions/functions.php#L1111
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3721168%40suredash%2Ftags%2F1.12.1&old=3694773%40suredash%2Ftags%2F1.12.0
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- TI-2025-03050 SureForms < 1.4.4 - Contributor+ Settings Update CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9
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Sources
- CVE-2026-96870 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-96870 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rcpx-g8xc-wvvp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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