Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Simple Shopping Cart Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2026-0552

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Simple Shopping Cart
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 April 2026

What is CVE-2026-0552?

The Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'wpsc_display_product' shortcode. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. Any user accessing these pages may inadvertently execute malicious scripts, posing serious security risks.

Affected Version(s)

Simple Shopping Cart 0 <= 5.2.4

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3440173/word...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Muhammad Yudha - DJ
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