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CVE-2026-7438: Bold Timeline Lite <= 1.2.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes
- 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: 2026-09-11 · updated 2026-09-11
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
The Bold Timeline Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `supertitle` and `subtitle` attributes of the `bold_timeline_item` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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
- boldthemes Bold Timeline Lite: through 1.2.8
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-timeline-lite/tags/1.2.8/assets/views/bold_timeline_item_view.php#L202
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-timeline-lite/tags/1.2.8/assets/views/bold_timeline_item_view.php#L204
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-timeline-lite/tags/1.2.8/content_elements/bold_timeline_item/bold_timeline_item.php#L10
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-timeline-lite/trunk/assets/views/bold_timeline_item_view.php#L202
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-timeline-lite/trunk/assets/views/bold_timeline_item_view.php#L204
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3556837%40bold-timeline-lite%2Ftrunk%2Fassets%2Fviews%2Fbold_timeline_item_view.php&old=3417223%40bold-timeline-lite%2Ftrunk%2Fassets%2Fviews%2Fbold_timeline_item_view.php&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bold-timeline-lite
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e739b324-f833-4b31-8d4c-40538c924ddf?source=cve
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