BWL Advanced FAQ Manager Lite <= 1.1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'sbox_id' Shortcode Attribute
Published Mar 26, 2026
6.4
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.36%
Description
The BWL Advanced FAQ Manager Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'baf_sbox' shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.1.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes such as 'sbox_id', 'sbox_class', 'placeholder', 'highlight_color', 'highlight_bg', and 'cont_ext_class'. These attributes are directly interpolated into HTML element attributes without any esc_attr() escaping in the baf_sbox() function. 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 products
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- Version 0StatusaffectedConstraints<=1.1.1
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
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| Xenioushk | BWL Advanced FAQ Manager Lite | unaffected |
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Remediation
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References (8)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/tags/1.1.1/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L46
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/tags/1.1.1/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L73
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/tags/1.1.1/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L75
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/trunk/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L46
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/trunk/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L73
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/trunk/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L75
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3487104%40bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite&new=3487104%40bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ef01f05a-ed5a-4278-acab-029c58242cf2?source=cve
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