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Optimole <= 4.2.3 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via Page Profiler URL

CVE-2026-5226Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤4.2.3Update to 4.2.4 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Optimole – Optimize Images | Convert WebP & AVIF | CDN & Lazy Load | Image Optimization optimole-wp

  1. Affected≤ 4.2.3
  2. Patched in4.2.4

Update to 4.2.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 4.2.3. Version 4.2.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Optimole – Optimize Images | Convert WebP & AVIF | CDN & Lazy Load | Image Optimization.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 4.2.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Optimole – Optimize Images | Convert WebP & AVIF | CDN & Lazy Load | Image Optimization to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ali Cem Havare, Sencer Kılıç, Cesi De Taranto.

The Optimole – Optimize Images in Real Time plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via URL paths in versions up to, and including, 4.2.3 This is due to insufficient output escaping on user-supplied URL paths in the get_current_url() function, which are inserted into JavaScript code via str_replace() without proper JavaScript context escaping in the replace_content() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Optimole – Optimize Images | Convert WebP & AVIF | CDN & Lazy Load | Image Optimization

All 16
More vulnerabilities in Optimole – Optimize Images | Convert WebP & AVIF | CDN & Lazy Load | Image Optimization
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Page Profiler srcset Descriptor
≤4.2.18Update to 4.2.19
CVE-2026-120739
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content
≤4.2.18Update to 4.2.19
CVE-2026-120677
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via Backslash-Escaped Unicode in URL Replacer
≤4.2.17Update to 4.2.18
CVE-2026-119070
Medium4.34.2.14 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Exposure
4.0.0 – 4.2.14Update to 4.2.15
CVE-2026-96530
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤4.2.14Update to 4.2.15
CVE-2026-102375

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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