Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 20, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2026-1042
CVE-2026-1042
Description
The WP Hello Bar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'digit_one' and 'digit_two' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 1.02 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
6- downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-hello-bar.1.02.zipnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-hello-bar/tags/1.02/wp-hello-bar.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-hello-bar/tags/1.02/wp-hello-bar.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-hello-bar/tags/1.02/wp-hello-bar.phpnvd
- wordpress.org/plugins/wp-hello-bar/nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/73b55486-adb8-40c6-9113-c98618d9cb00nvd
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