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CVE-2026-18595

moderate

Unauthenticated Stored XSS in WP-Lister Lite for eBay WordPress plugin

CVSS 3.1
7.2 high
EPSS
Published
()
Modified
AI analysis

WP-Lister Lite for eBay, a popular WordPress plugin for syncing WooCommerce/eBay listings, is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting in all versions up to and including 3.8.9 via an AJAX cron handler request parameter, due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. Because the flaw is exploitable without authentication, any remote attacker can submit crafted input that is stored and rendered as arbitrary JavaScript, executing in the browser of any user who views an injected page. Successful exploitation lets the attacker steal session cookies, impersonate or act as victims (including administrators), deface content, or redirect users to malicious sites. Any WordPress site running WP-Lister Lite for eBay at or below version 3.8.9 is affected. There is currently no known public proof of concept, no CISA KEV listing, and no evidence of exploitation in the wild.

What to do: Update WP-Lister Lite for eBay immediately to a version later than 3.8.9 (the latest available release). Because this is unauthenticated stored XSS, administrators should also audit posts, pages, and plugin-generated content for injected JavaScript, and review user accounts and admin sessions for signs of takeover. If immediate patching is not possible, use a WAF or server rules to scrutinize unauthenticated requests to the plugin's AJAX cron handler endpoints and monitor logs for abuse.

Affected
WPLab (WP-Lister) WP-Lister Lite for eBay (WordPress plugin)All versions up to and including 3.8.9
Estimated exposure
moderate≈30,000–40,000 WordPress sites (tens of thousands of active installs), clearly an estimate — Based on the plugin's WordPress.org active-install count, which is in the tens of thousands; sites running version 3.8.9 or older (i.e., not recently auto-updated) are potentially vulnerable.

Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.

Description

The WP-Lister Lite for eBay plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via AJAX Cron Handler Request Parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.9 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.

Ecosystems
WordPress
Weakness
CWE-79
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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