Zotpress <= 7.4.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via zotpressInText Shortcode
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1667
- Plugin
- Zotpress (zotpress)
- Affected
- all versions before 7.4.5
- Remediation
- Update to 7.4.5 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, 2026-10-27
- Attack surface
- Zotpress on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Zotpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'item' and 'items' attributes of the zotpressInText shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.4. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping: the attribute values are passed through html_entity_decode(), which turns entity-encoded markup back into live HTML, and are then printed without escaping in the in-text citation markup and in the item list that the zotpressInTextBib shortcode outputs. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1667/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/zotpress/tags/7.4.5/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/zotpress/
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