CVE-2026-10553

June 9, 2026, 1:33 p.m.

4.3
Medium

Description

The jQuery Hover Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the jqFootnotes_options_subpanel function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings with arbitrary values that, because option values such as jqfoot_anchor_open, jqfoot_anchor_close, and jqfoot_title are echoed unescaped into frontend page content, can be chained into persistent Cross-Site Scripting affecting all site visitors via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Successful exploitation of the CSRF vulnerability can be chained into stored Cross-Site Scripting, as the overwritten option values are persisted via update_option() without sanitization and rendered unescaped on the frontend.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Jquery Hover Footnotes
  • Jquery Hover Footnotes
  • <1.4
Wordpress
  • Wordpress
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-352
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a jquery_hover_footnotes jquery_hover_footnotes <1.4 / / / / / / /
a wordpress wordpress / / / / / wordpress / /

CVSS Score

4.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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Timeline

Published: June 9, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
Last Modified: June 9, 2026, 1:33 p.m.

Status : Deferred

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

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