WP Customer Area <= 8.4.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'customer-area-protected-content' Shortcode 'layout' and 'title' Attributes

ID

WPSEC-2026-2454

Plugin

WP Customer Area (customer-area)

Affected

all versions before 8.4.4

Remediation

Update to 8.4.4 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, 2026-11-04

Attack surface

WP Customer Area on WPSec AttackSurface

Fix released

2026-11-03

Published

2026-11-04

Description

The WP Customer Area plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'layout' and 'title' attributes of the [customer-area-protected-content] shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 8.4.3, due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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 logged-in user accesses an injected page.

References

• https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2454/
• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/customer-area/tags/8.4.4/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/customer-area/

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