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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 accesses an 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":"2026-11-08","score":0.00207,"percentile":0.1092,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-03-26T02:25:20Z","modified":"2026-06-17T10:55:56Z","products":[{"vendor":"xenioushk","product":"bwl advanced faq manager lite"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ef01f05a-ed5a-4278-acab-029c58242cf2?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/trunk/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L73"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/tags/1.1.1/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L73"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/trunk/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L75"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/tags/1.1.1/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L75"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/trunk/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L46"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/tags/1.1.1/includes/shortcodes/baf_faq_list.php#L46"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026old=3487104%40bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite\u0026new=3487104%40bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail="},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4075"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2vv2-mqg3-3j3p"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-4075","title":"BWL Advanced FAQ Manager Lite \u003c= 1.1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'sbox_id' Shortcode Attribute","description":"The BWL Advanced FAQ Manager Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'baf_sbox' shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.1.1. 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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 accesses an injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-26T02:25:20.928Z","modified":"2026-04-08T17:31:52.764Z","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":"2026-11-02T14:19:58.944663Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-16083","description":"The BWL Advanced FAQ Manager Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'baf_sbox' shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.1.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes such as 'sbox_id', 'sbox_class', 'placeholder', 'highlight_color', 'highlight_bg', and 'cont_ext_class'. These attributes are directly interpolated into HTML element attributes without any esc_attr() escaping in the baf_sbox() function. 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 accesses an injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-26T02:25:20Z","modified":"2026-04-08T17:31:52Z","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":"2026-11-02T19:24:34.419469Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-2vv2-mqg3-3j3p","title":"The BWL Advanced FAQ Manager Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site...","description":"The BWL Advanced FAQ Manager Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'baf_sbox' shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.1.1. 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These attributes are directly interpolated into HTML element attributes without any esc_attr() escaping in the baf_sbox() function. 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 accesses an injected page.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-26T04:17:12.12Z","modified":"2026-06-17T10:55:56.94Z","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":"2026-11-02T14:12:11.678711Z"}]}}