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CVE-2026-6972: SKT Skill Bar <= 2.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2026-08-05 · updated 2026-08-12
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The SKT Skill Bar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `chart_size` attribute of the `skillwrapper` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.6. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the `chart_size` attribute, which is concatenated directly into an inline `<style>` block. 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

• sonalsinha21 SKT Skill Bar: through 2.6

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/skt-skill-bar/tags/2.6/sktskillbar.php#L240
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/skt-skill-bar/tags/2.6/sktskillbar.php#L541
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/skt-skill-bar/tags/2.6/sktskillbar.php#L56
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/skt-skill-bar/trunk/sktskillbar.php#L240
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3565730%40skt-skill-bar%2Ftrunk&old=3565726%40skt-skill-bar%2Ftrunk
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eb689760-837f-45e6-ba51-a834053be6ae?source=cve

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