{"id":"CVE-2026-118048","aliases":["EUVD-2026-118961","GHSA-cxg9-r34v-qh6j"],"status":"published","title":"WP Data Access \u003c= 5.5.89 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Autocomplete Lookup Label","description":"The WP Data Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Simple Form autocomplete lookup label in versions up to, and including, 5.5.89 This is due to insufficient output escaping on the value returned by WPDA_Autocomplete::autocomplete_lookup() when it is emitted into a single-quoted HTML attribute by WPDA_Simple_Form_Item_Autocomplete::show_item() (the escape-output lint is explicitly suppressed on the echo line). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, who are permitted to edit a lookup row through a legacy Form, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user — including a higher-privileged user editing a linked record that uses the autocomplete relationship — accesses the injected page.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00193,"percentile":0.0909,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-11-07T06:39:35Z","modified":"2026-11-07T09:30:47Z","products":[{"vendor":"peterschulznl","product":"wp data access – app builder for tables, forms, dashboards, charts \u0026 maps"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25cf5cf7-d846-4f0e-aa6b-bbf7dba27b10?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-data-access/tags/5.5.89/WPDataAccess/Simple_Form/WPDA_Simple_Form_Item_Autocomplete.php#L73"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-data-access/tags/5.5.89/WPDataAccess/Utilities/WPDA_Autocomplete.php#L141"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=\u0026new=3771310%40wp-data-access%2Ftags%2F5.5.90\u0026old=3761178%40wp-data-access%2Ftags%2F5.5.89"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118048"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cxg9-r34v-qh6j"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-118048","title":"WP Data Access \u003c= 5.5.89 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Autocomplete Lookup Label","description":"The WP Data Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Simple Form autocomplete lookup label in versions up to, and including, 5.5.89 This is due to insufficient output escaping on the value returned by WPDA_Autocomplete::autocomplete_lookup() when it is emitted into a single-quoted HTML attribute by WPDA_Simple_Form_Item_Autocomplete::show_item() (the escape-output lint is explicitly suppressed on the echo line). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, who are permitted to edit a lookup row through a legacy Form, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user — including a higher-privileged user editing a linked record that uses the autocomplete relationship — accesses the injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-07T06:39:35.49Z","modified":"2026-11-07T18:06:06.195Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-07T07:33:04.747512Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-118961","description":"The WP Data Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Simple Form autocomplete lookup label in versions up to, and including, 5.5.89 This is due to insufficient output escaping on the value returned by WPDA_Autocomplete::autocomplete_lookup() when it is emitted into a single-quoted HTML attribute by WPDA_Simple_Form_Item_Autocomplete::show_item() (the escape-output lint is explicitly suppressed on the echo line). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, who are permitted to edit a lookup row through a legacy Form, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user — including a higher-privileged user editing a linked record that uses the autocomplete relationship — accesses the injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-07T06:39:35Z","modified":"2026-11-07T18:06:06Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-07T12:09:18.638273Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-cxg9-r34v-qh6j","title":"The WP Data Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the...","description":"The WP Data Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Simple Form autocomplete lookup label in versions up to, and including, 5.5.89 This is due to insufficient output escaping on the value returned by WPDA_Autocomplete::autocomplete_lookup() when it is emitted into a single-quoted HTML attribute by WPDA_Simple_Form_Item_Autocomplete::show_item() (the escape-output lint is explicitly suppressed on the echo line). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, who are permitted to edit a lookup row through a legacy Form, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user — including a higher-privileged user editing a linked record that uses the autocomplete relationship — accesses the injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-07T09:30:39Z","modified":"2026-11-07T09:30:47Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-07T09:36:36.783031Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-118048","description":"The WP Data Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Simple Form autocomplete lookup label in versions up to, and including, 5.5.89 This is due to insufficient output escaping on the value returned by WPDA_Autocomplete::autocomplete_lookup() when it is emitted into a single-quoted HTML attribute by WPDA_Simple_Form_Item_Autocomplete::show_item() (the escape-output lint is explicitly suppressed on the echo line). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, who are permitted to edit a lookup row through a legacy Form, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user — including a higher-privileged user editing a linked record that uses the autocomplete relationship — accesses the injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-07T07:17:02.923Z","modified":"2026-11-07T18:17:13.15Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-07T20:06:33.424827Z"}]}}