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CVE-2026-94376

MEDIUM 6.4

Better Messages <= 3.0.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via User Display Name

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via User Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.4 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. This is exploitable by Subscriber-level users because WordPress core's sanitize_text_field() preserves HTML-entity-encoded payloads (e.g., an iframe srcdoc attribute), allowing the encoded string to be stored as a display name without requiring the unfiltered_html capability, and the plugin subsequently decodes it server-side before rendering.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor wordplus
Product better messages – chat rooms, group chat, private messages & ai chat bots
Published Sep 25, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

wordplus / Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots
0 ≤ 3.0.4

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f4f5a268-7e7f-4dbe-823a-a17ac0f52928?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/3.0.3/inc/functions.php#L2276 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/3.0.3/inc/functions.php#L1117 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=bp-better-messages%2Ftags%2F3.0.3%2Faddons%2Fbuddyboss.php&new_path=bp-better-messages%2Ftags%2F3.0.5%2Faddons%2Fbuddyboss.php

Credits

Adrien Brunner