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Content Slideshow, CVE-2026-8873

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2026-8873

Application

Content Slideshow

Published on
May 27, 2026
Research Description
The Content Slideshow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.1 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 user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions
max 2.4.1.
Status
vulnerable