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Easy Cart <= 1.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

Published Jun 2, 2026

Description

The Easy Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'add_to_cart' shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.8. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. Specifically, the ectp_add_to_cart() function uses sanitize_text_field() on shortcode attributes like 'itemid', 'product_name', 'product_desc', 'product_qty', and 'price' before inserting them into double-quoted HTML attributes. While sanitize_text_field() strips HTML tags, it does not escape double quote characters, allowing an attacker to break out of the HTML attribute context and inject arbitrary event handlers. 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.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Wordfence
Published Jun 2, 2026
Updated Jun 2, 2026
Reserved Mar 12, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Jun 2, 2026
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Jul 22, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner Wordfence
Published Jun 2, 2026
Updated Jun 2, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2026-33892