Vulnerabilities / Bootstrap Shortcodes / WPSEC-2026-1262
Bootstrap Shortcodes <= 3.4.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Bundled Bootstrap Library Data Attributes
Medium 6.4
CWE-79Fixed in 3.4.6
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1262
- Plugin
- Bootstrap Shortcodes (bootstrap-shortcodes)
- Affected
- all versions before 3.4.6
- Remediation
- Update to 3.4.6 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-20
- Attack surface
- Bootstrap Shortcodes on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Bootstrap Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.4 due to bundling an outdated version of the Bootstrap JavaScript library (3.3.5) that passes data-target, data-parent and data-container attribute values to jQuery as HTML and does not sanitize tooltip and popover templates. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts through crafted data-* attributes in post content that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1262/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bootstrap-shortcodes/tags/3.4.6/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bootstrap-shortcodes/
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