Stored cross-site scripting in WordPress Typing Text plugin
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Typing Text: Give your texts many typing effects plugin for WordPress by bPlugins, from n/a through 2.2.0, does not properly neutralize input during web page generation (CWE-79), which allows stored cross-site scripting. An attacker with low privileges can store script that runs in the browser of another user who interacts with the affected page.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in bPlugins Typing Text – Give your texts many typing effects text-typing allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Typing Text – Give your texts many typing effects: from n/a through 2.2.0.
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 Typing Text: Give your texts many typing effects.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Timeline
- 2026-10-26 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-115966
- 2026-10-26 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-26 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-27 Alias added: GHSA-hhw6-cj52-7w4w
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Sources
- CVE-2026-115966 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-115966 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hhw6-cj52-7w4w · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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