Draft List <= 2.6.2 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'display_name' Parameter
CVE-2026-4006Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.6.2Update to 2.6.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.4
- CVSS
- 6.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Draft List simple-draft-list
- Affected≤ 2.6.2
- Patched in2.6.3
Update to 2.6.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.6.2. Version 2.6.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Draft List.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.6.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Draft List to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to hxuu, Abdelkhalek Beraoud (letmewin).
The Simple Draft List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' post meta (Custom Field) in all versions up to and including 2.6.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the author display name when no author URL is present. The plugin accesses `$draft_data->display_name` which, because `display_name` is not a native WP_Post property, triggers WP_Post::__get() and resolves to `get_post_meta($post_id, 'display_name', true)`. When the `user_url` meta field is empty, the `$author` value is assigned to `$author_link` on line 383 without any escaping (unlike line 378 which uses `esc_html()` for the `{{author}}` tag, and line 381 which uses `esc_html()` when a URL is present). This unescaped value is then inserted into the shortcode output via `str_replace()`. 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 a page containing the `[drafts]` shortcode with the `{{author+link}}` template tag.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.6.4Update to 2.6.5 | CVE-2026-66603 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Draft Post Title 2.6.3 – 2.6.3Update to 2.6.4 | CVE-2026-9104 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting <2.6.4Update to 2.6.4 | CVE-2026-49466 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.6.1Update to 2.6.2 | CVE-2025-11197 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.6Update to 2.6.1 | CVE-2025-10181 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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