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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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00145,"percentile":0.03806,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-352"],"published":"2026-06-09T03:41:23Z","modified":"2026-07-23T08:10:00Z","products":[{"vendor":"weaverlancegmailcom","product":"jquery hover footnotes"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c174887b-e24d-4100-97da-8e0923ebafe5?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L57"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L56"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L159"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10553"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ccr8-xm74-43hp"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-10553","title":"jQuery Hover Footnotes \u003c= 1.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update","description":"The jQuery Hover Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.4. 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