WP Carousel Free <= 2.7.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-caption' Attribute
Published May 5, 2026
6.4
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.33%
Description
The WP Carousel Free plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via crafted fancybox `data-caption` attributes in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.10. This is due to the `fancybox-config.js` script reading the carousel container's `id` attribute directly from the DOM to construct a jQuery selector without sanitization. When a Contributor crafts an HTML block with a malformed carousel container ID (containing characters invalid for jQuery selectors), the custom fancybox configuration throws a JavaScript error and fails to initialize. This causes the bundled fancybox library (v3.5.7) to fall back to its default caption handling, which renders the `data-caption` attribute content as raw HTML. Since WordPress allows `data-*` attributes through `wp_kses_post()`, 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 clicks an image in the crafted carousel lightbox.
Affected products
- Vendor Shapedplugin Product Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel Defaultunaffected
- Version 0StatusaffectedConstraints<=2.7.10
- 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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| Shapedplugin | Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel | unaffected |
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Remediation
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References (5)
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-27181 Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-carousel-free/tags/2.7.10/public/js/fancybox-config.js#L3
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-carousel-free/trunk/public/js/fancybox-config.js#L3
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3506878/wp-carousel-free/trunk/public/js/fancybox.js
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e75815a3-2414-47f3-b0c4-e5d3e2cb369d?source=cve
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