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CVE-2026-97396: Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce <= 1.0.10 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data' Parameter to /updateOptions REST Endpoint

• 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: 2026-10-10 · updated 2026-10-13
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce – Retainful plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.10 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.

Affected products

• retainful Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce – Retainful: through 1.0.10

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/retainful/tags/1.0.9/App/Controllers/RestApi.php#L382
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/retainful/tags/1.0.9/App/Controllers/RestApi.php#L991
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/retainful/tags/1.0.9/App/Controllers/Store/Common.php#L62
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/retainful/tags/1.0.9/App/Helpers/Auth.php#L68
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3728354/retainful/trunk/App/Controllers/RestApi.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d2baf5d-a8a6-41db-8364-3a4b166b81cb?source=cve

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