Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories: Cross-site scripting
Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires at least administrator-level access. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed. The published affected range is <= 4.10.0.
- Component
- Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories
- Plugin slug
post-expirator- Affected
- <= 4.10.0
- Safe version
> 4.10.0- Published
- May 05, 2026
This CVE was published May 05, 2026 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories to a release after 4.10.0, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wrapper' attribute of the [futureaction] shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.10.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization on the wrapper attribute. The plugin uses esc_html() to escape the value, but esc_html() only encodes HTML entities and does not prevent attribute injection when the value is used as an HTML tag name in a sprintf() call. An attacker can inject event handler attributes via spaces in the wrapper value. 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. Since it is also possible for administrators to make this functionality available to lower-privileged users, this introduces the possibility of abuse by contributors.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N