CVE-2026-17161
Description
The WowStore – Store Builder & Product Blocks for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'filterMobileText' Block Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.24 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The save-time wp_kses_post sanitization is ineffective because the payload is stored inside a Gutenberg block delimiter comment as JSON, which wp_kses_post preserves, allowing an attribute-breakout string to survive to the server-side render_callback.
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Affected products
1- Range: <=4.4.24
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/product-blocks/trunk/blocks/Product_Grid_1.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/product-blocks/trunk/blocks/template/filter.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/product-blocks/trunk/classes/Functions.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fae39bf9-8ceb-4cb1-afd1-522c885e6ef5nvd
News mentions
2- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 3, 2026 to August 9, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Aug 14, 2026
- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 27, 2026 to August 2, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Aug 8, 2026