# 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`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/customer-area/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 8.4.4
- **Fixed in:** 8.4.4 (Update to 8.4.4 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-79
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-11-04)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/customer-area
- **Fix released:** 2026-11-03
- **Published:** 2026-11-04
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2454/

## 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/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2454/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.