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CVE-2026-48094 (GCVE-0-2026-48094)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-07 12:37 – Updated: 2026-08-07 15:10

Title

ShareOpenly has Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Missing esc_url() on Shared URL in Content Output

Summary

The ShareOpenly WordPress plugin prior to version 1.2.1 contains a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability caused by the absence of WordPress's `esc_url()` escaping function on the `$url` variable before it is rendered into HTML content. This variable is constructed from `home_url( add_query_arg( array(), $wp->request ) )` and is concatenated directly into an HTML `href` attribute on every singular post or page where the plugin's sharing link is displayed. WordPress's security handbook mandates that every URL placed in HTML output must be passed through `esc_url()`, which both HTML-encodes special characters (converting `"`, `<`, `>` into their safe HTML entity equivalents) and strips dangerous URI schemes such as `javascript:` and `data:`. The omission of this function means that if the `$url` value ever contains HTML-special characters or a dangerous URI scheme — through a `home_url` WordPress filter applied by another plugin or theme, through certain web server or hosting configurations, or through future code changes — the unescaped content will be injected verbatim into the rendered HTML of every post or page on the site. Version 1.2.1 contains a patch for the issue.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

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

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/dartiss/shareopenly/security/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/dartiss/shareopenly/commit/faf…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/dartiss/shareopenly/releases/t…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
dartiss	shareopenly	Affected: < 1.2.1

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