Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation Plugin cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation Plugin up to 9.1.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-76789. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation Plugin up to 9.1.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation WordPress plugin before 9.1.3 does not have authorisation and nonce checks on two of its request handlers, and does not escape a stored setting before outputting it, allowing unauthenticated users to store malicious JavaScript which will be executed in the context of an administrator viewing the Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation WordPress plugin before 9.1.3's admin area, as well as any visitor of a page embedding a slider.

The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-76789 since 08/19/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 9.1.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-64223). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation Plugin

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• 9.1.0
• 9.1.1
• 9.1.2

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