CVE-2026-96768
7.2HighPublished 16 Oct 2026 · NVD status: Deferred · AI triage by gemini-3.8-flash
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Impact
- Limited impact
- Weakness
- CWE-79
Impact
Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary web scripts in the browser of any admin viewing email logs. They need only to submit a malicious comment on the site.
Root cause
The plugin logs raw HTML decoded from entity-encoded comment text without sanitizing or escaping the email body when rendering it.
Affected systems
GoSMTP Pro plugin for WordPress up to, and including, 1.2.3
CVSS v3.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Fix & remediation
Upgrade GoSMTP Pro to version 1.2.4 or later. If patching immediately is not possible, disable the GoSMTP Pro plugin or turn off email logging.
$ wp plugin update gosmtp-proAI-suggested. Run it in staging first and check it against the vendor advisory. Why?
NVD description
The GoSMTP Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via Email Log Body in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The exploit is made possible because WordPress comment kses does not strip entity-encoded tag delimiters, allowing the payload to pass moderation as safe text before being decoded into live HTML by core email notification functions and written verbatim into the plugin's email log database table.