PT-2026-42063 · Yog2515 · General Options

Published 2026-05-20 · Updated 2026-05-20 · CVE-2026-6399

Mitre

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The General Options plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 1.1.0. This is due to the use of sanitize text field() for output escaping in the Contact Number (ad contact number) field — a function that strips HTML tags but does not encode double-quote characters to their HTML entity equivalent ("). When the stored value is echoed inside a double-quoted HTML attribute (value="..."), an attacker-supplied double-quote character breaks out of the attribute context. Even with WordPress's wp magic quotes mechanism (which prefixes quotes with a backslash), the resulting " sequence is NOT treated as an escaped quote by HTML parsers — the backslash is rendered as a literal character and the bare double-quote still closes the attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Administrator-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in the admin settings page that will execute whenever any administrator visits the General Options settings page.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-6399

Affected Products

General Options

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6399 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/general-options/tags/1.1.0/direct-action.php · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d29c69bb-4feb-477e-b18f-934ece21aff6?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/general-options/tags/1.1.0/direct-main.php · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/general-options/trunk/direct-main.php · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/general-options/trunk/direct-action.php · Note