Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published May 5, 2026· Updated May 5, 2026
CVE-2026-6255
CVE-2026-6255
Description
The Simple Owl Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'num' attribute of the 'owls_wrapper' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Affected products
1- Range: <=2.1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3News mentions
2- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 11, 2026 to May 17, 2026)Wordfence Blog · May 21, 2026
- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 4, 2026 to May 10, 2026)Wordfence Blog · May 14, 2026