CVE-2026-18109
Description
The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author Name in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.3 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. This vulnerability is only exploitable when the Lazy Load Images feature of W3 Total Cache is enabled, as the unsafe re-emission occurs exclusively within the LazyLoad mutator's img tag rewriting step.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.2/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Mutator.php#L162
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.2/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Mutator.php#L403
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.2/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Mutator.php#L85
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.2/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Plugin.php#L116
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3635675/w3-total-cache/trunk/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Mutator.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fw3-total-cache/tags/2.10.3&new_path=%2Fw3-total-cache/tags/2.10.4
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3635675%40w3-total-cache%2Ftags%2F2.10.4&old=3625062%40w3-total-cache%2Ftags%2F2.10.3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/16ac73ae-6a0a-4c9b-8830-e0745061e587?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.