Vulnerabilities and security researches forshort-comment-filter short-comment-filter

Apr 23, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-3362
Home page URL: Security reports for Short Comment Filter
Application: Short Comment Filter
Date: Apr 22, 2026
Research Description: The Short Comment Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Minimum Count' settings field in all versions up to and including 2.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization (no sanitize callback on register_setting) and missing output escaping (no esc_attr() on the echoed value in the input's value attribute). The option value is stored via update_option() and rendered unescaped in an HTML attribute context. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in the settings page that will execute whenever a user accesses that page. This is particularly impactful in WordPress multisite installations or when DISALLOW_UNFILTERED_HTML is set, where administrators are not granted the unfiltered_html capability.
Affected versions: max 2.2.
Status: vulnerable