CVE-2026-10738

Description

The jQuery Hover Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Footnote Qualifier ('{ {...} }' Syntax) in all versions up to, and including, 1.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The attribute-breakout payload (e.g., a double-quote followed by an event handler) contains no angle brackets and therefore bypasses WordPress core's wp_kses_post() filtering, which only strips disallowed HTML tags rather than sanitizing attribute contexts.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L213
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L222
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L235
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L246
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b02bdf2a-1d99-4cc3-8f75-822ff0792e44?source=cve