CVE-2026-15797: Popup Maker <= 1.24.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post_title

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-09-18 · updated 2026-09-19
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Popup Maker – Boost Sales, Conversions, Optins, Subscribers with the Ultimate WP Popup Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post_title in all versions up to, and including, 1.24.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output 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. This requires the attacker to create a post with an HTML entity-encoded payload in the title, which bypasses sanitize_text_field on save and is later decoded and executed by the browser when rendered by the Select2 component.

Affected products

danieliser Popup Maker – Boost Sales, Conversions, Optins, Subscribers with the Ultimate WP Popup Builder: through 1.24.0

References

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