Medium severity · published Oct 16, 2026
CVE-2026-96870
SureDash <= 1.12.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'display_name' Parameter
6.4
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The exploit is triggered when any user hovers over a comment's like counter on a community page, as the plugin's tooltip handler assigns the attacker-controlled data-tooltip-description attribute value directly to innerHTML, re-parsing the browser-decoded entity payload as live HTML.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 10% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SC
SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard · brainstormforce
through 1.12.0 · source: vendor
Affected product
SC
SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard
brainstormforce
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96870
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96870
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/assets/js/minified/common.min.js#L58
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/core/routers/misc.php#L647
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/core/routes.php#L121
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/functions/functions.php#L1037
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/functions/functions.php#L1111
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/services/router.php#L127
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