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Description

The Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wrapper' attribute of the [futureaction] shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.10.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization on the wrapper attribute. The plugin uses esc_html() to escape the value, but esc_html() only encodes HTML entities and does not prevent attribute injection when the value is used as an HTML tag name in a sprintf() call. An attacker can inject event handler attributes via spaces in the wrapper value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Since it is also possible for administrators to make this functionality available to lower-privileged users, this introduces the possibility of abuse by contributors.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-31 | Published 2026-05-05 | Updated 2026-05-05 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2026-03-31:Vendor Notified
2026-05-04:Disclosed

Credits

Djaidja Moundjid finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-8354-4430-9836-18fa17854521?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ollers/ShortcodeController.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ollers/ShortcodeController.php

github.com/publishpress/publishpress-future/releases

cve.org (CVE-2026-5247)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-5247)

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