Product Catalog Simple <= 1.9.2 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'ic-search-keyword' esc_html Filter Bypass
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1501
- Plugin
- Product Catalog Simple (post-type-x)
- Affected
- all versions before 1.9.3
- Remediation
- Update to 1.9.3 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-23
- Attack surface
- Product Catalog Simple on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Product Catalog Simple plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'ic-search-keyword' esc_html filter bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.2, due to the plugin hooking the global 'esc_html' filter and returning the original, unescaped text whenever it contains the string 'ic-search-keyword'. This turns off esc_html() escaping across the whole site, in WordPress core and in other plugins and themes, for any attacker-supplied value that contains that string. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that execute if they can trick a user, such as an administrator, into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1501/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-type-x/tags/1.9.3/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-x/
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