bappidgreat WP Circliful Plugin up to 1.2 on WordPress Shortcode circliful_shortcode cross site scripting

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in bappidgreat WP Circliful Plugin up to 1.2 on WordPress. The impacted element is the function circliful_shortcode of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-3659. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in bappidgreat WP Circliful Plugin up to 1.2 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function circliful_shortcode of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The WP Circliful plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' shortcode attribute of the [circliful] shortcode and via multiple shortcode attributes of the [circliful_direct] shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. Specifically, in the circliful_shortcode() function, the 'id' attribute value is concatenated directly into an HTML id attribute (line 285) without any escaping, allowing an attacker to break out of the double-quoted attribute and inject arbitrary HTML event handlers. Similarly, the circliful_direct_shortcode() function (line 257) outputs all shortcode attributes directly into HTML data-* attributes 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.

The weakness was presented by Gilang Asra Bilhadi. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-3659 since 03/06/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• bappidgreat

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• WP Circliful Plugin

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2

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