CVE-2026-10553
4.3 MEDIUMThe jQuery Hover Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.4
Published: 2026-06-09 · Last updated: 2026-06-09
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 4.3 MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CWE
- CWE-352
Description
The jQuery Hover Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the jqFootnotes_options_subpanel function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings with arbitrary values that, because option values such as jqfoot_anchor_open, jqfoot_anchor_close, and jqfoot_title are echoed unescaped into frontend page content, can be chained into persistent Cross-Site Scripting affecting all site visitors via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Successful exploitation of the CSRF vulnerability can be chained into stored Cross-Site Scripting, as the overwritten option values are persisted via update_option() without sanitization and rendered unescaped on the frontend.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10553
- [Other]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L159
- [Other]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L56
- [Other]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L57
- [Other]https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c174887b-e24d-4100-97da-8e0923ebafe5?source=cve
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