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CVE-2026-96870: SureDash <= 1.12.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'display_name' Parameter
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2026-10-16 · updated 2026-10-16
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
The SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The exploit is triggered when any user hovers over a comment's like counter on a community page, as the plugin's tooltip handler assigns the attacker-controlled data-tooltip-description attribute value directly to innerHTML, re-parsing the browser-decoded entity payload as live HTML.
Affected products
- brainstormforce SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard: through 1.12.0
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/assets/js/minified/common.min.js#L58
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/core/routers/misc.php#L647
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/core/routes.php#L121
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/functions/functions.php#L1037
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/functions/functions.php#L1111
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/services/router.php#L127
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3721168%40suredash%2Ftags%2F1.12.1&old=3694773%40suredash%2Ftags%2F1.12.0
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ece14f57-475d-4efc-8daf-52dfdaa12697?source=cve
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