CVE-2026-120019

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 61/100
Published: 2026-10-31 Modified: 2026-11-02 First seen: 2026-10-31 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network No Auth No Interaction Scope Change

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: High
PR: None
UI: None
S: Changed
C: Low
I: Low
A: None

Description

The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.7 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 requires HTML Minify to be enabled with the default 'mfunc' entry present in the ignored-comment stems list, and exploitation depends on the attacker predicting the md5(time()) placeholder namespace by reading the server clock via the HTTP Date response header within the applicable time window.

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
boldgrid W3 Total Cache 0
boldgrid W3 Total Cache 0

Bug Bounty Relevance

61 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.4 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.22%
Raw Score 0.002210
Percentile 12.8%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00221
2026-11-12
0.00221
2026-11-10
0.00221
2026-11-09
0.00221
2026-11-08
0.00221
2026-11-07
0.00221
2026-11-06
0.00221
2026-11-05
0.00221
2026-11-04
0.00221
2026-11-03
0.00221
2026-11-02
0.00221
2026-11-01
0.00221
2026-10-31
0.00221

Intelligence Sources

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