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CVE-2026-49466: Draft List - Contributor Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Draft Title in Custom Drafts Template Attributes

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-12 · updated 2026-09-08
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Draft List is a WordPress plugin to manage and promote unpublished content. Versions 2.6.3 and below are vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the `[drafts]` shortcode and Draft List widget when the documented custom `template` option places the `{{draft}}` placeholder inside an HTML attribute. The vulnerable code inserts the raw draft `post_title` into `{{draft}}` when the current viewer cannot edit posts. Because the template is sanitized before `{{draft}}` replacement, a Contributor can store a quote-only title payload that breaks out of an attribute in a site-configured Draft List template and executes JavaScript for visitors who load the public page. Version 2.6.4 fixes the issue.

Affected products

• dartiss draft-list: before 2.6.4

References

• https://github.com/dartiss/draft-list/compare/2.6.3...2.6.4
• https://github.com/dartiss/draft-list/releases/tag/2.6.4
• https://github.com/dartiss/draft-list/security/advisories/GHSA-xxx9-hfqp-f83f
• https://github.com/dartiss/draft-list/security/advisories/GHSA-xxx9-hfqp-f83f

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