CVE-2026-94154: Aurora Heatmap <= 1.7.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'url' Parameter

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-10-08 · updated 2026-10-08
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Aurora Heatmap plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever an admin user clicks the injected heatmap link.

Affected products

r3098 Aurora Heatmap: through 1.7.2

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3712276/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1b0094ed-1066-44da-b317-de8db91fa013?source=cve

Get alerted when CVE-2026-94154 or the next vulnerability affects your stack