The Smart Post – Post Grid, Post Carousel, Post Slider Gutenberg Blocks for Blog & News plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.9 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. Exploitation requires the victim page to contain an Author Filter block alongside a grid or live-filter block, and execution is triggered by a visitor clicking the attacker's author entry in the dropdown — a standard filter interaction requiring no elevated privileges from the victim.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.4 · shapedpluginNVD modified 2026-10-31 08:30
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a5612c16-9629-4869-8ec1-8fba788b7d7c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-carousel/tags/4.0.8/blocks/includes/class-template-part.php#L1146
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-carousel/tags/4.0.8/blocks/assets/js/script.js#L1744
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-carousel/tags/4.0.8/blocks/includes/class-template-part.php#L1130
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3775298/post-carousel
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3775298/post-carousel/trunk/blocks/assets/js/script.js