Vulnerability · Published Apr 22, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2026-4076Slider Bootstrap Carousel <= 1.0.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes
Medium 6.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Slider Bootstrap Carousel from felipermendes. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 32% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Slider Bootstrap Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'category' and 'template' shortcode attributes in all versions up to and including 1.0.7. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. The plugin uses extract() on shortcode_atts() to parse attributes, then directly outputs the $category variable into multiple HTML attributes (id, data-target, href) on lines 38, 47, 109, and 113 without applying esc_attr(). Similarly, the $template attribute flows into a class attribute on line 93 without escaping. 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| felipermendes | Slider Bootstrap Carousel | 0 – through 1.0.7 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/26fe0b7b-dbf8-467f-b5e2-86a858eeaf89?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L38
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L38
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L7
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L7
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L47
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L47
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L93
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L93
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L109
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L109
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/trunk/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L113
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slider-bootstrap-carousel/tags/1.0.7/includes/sbc-shortcode.php#L113