CVE-2026-4005 - Coachific Shortcode <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'userhash' Shortcode Attribute

CVE-2026-4005 - Coachific Shortcode <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'userhash' Shortcode Attribute

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CVE ID :CVE-2026-4005
Published : April 15, 2026, 8:28 a.m. | 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
Description :The Coachific Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'userhash' shortcode attribute in all versions up to and including 1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. The plugin uses sanitize_text_field() on the 'userhash' parameter, which strips HTML tags but does not escape characters significant in a JavaScript string context (such as double quotes, semicolons, and parentheses). The sanitized value is then directly interpolated into a JavaScript string within a

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