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Plugin · jquery-hover-footnotes
jQuery Hover Footnotes
2 known vulnerabilities on record. Add your version above to see which ones affect you.
Jun 9, 2026jQuery Hover Footnotes: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2026-10738 · affects up to 1.4 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
The jQuery Hover Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Footnote Qualifier ('{{...}}' Syntax) in all versions up to, and including, 1.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The attribute-breakout payload (e.g., a double-quote followed by an event handler) contains no angle brackets and therefore bypasses WordPress core's wp_kses_post() filtering, which only strips disallowed HTML tags rather than sanitizing attribute contexts.
NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Jun 9, 2026jQuery Hover Footnotes: Cross-Site Request ForgeryCVE-2026-10553 · affects up to 1.4 · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.3
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.
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