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Vulnerability in Flying Scripts: Delay JavaScript to Improve Site Speed & Performance — CVE-2026-109990

HighSeverity
CVSS 7.2
0.3%Estimated exploit probability
EPSS
30,000+ sitesInstalls
1.2.5Fixed in

What to do now

Update Flying Scripts: Delay JavaScript to Improve Site Speed & Performance to 1.2.5 or later.

Affected versions

  • Everything up to and including 1.2.4

Affected: Flying Scripts: Delay JavaScript to Improve Site Speed & Performance (plugin, flying-scripts)

Check: The plugin on wordpress.org / Our record for Flying Scripts: Delay JavaScript to Improve Site Speed & Performance

What the vulnerability is

The Flying Scripts: Delay JavaScript to Improve Site Speed & Performance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.4 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. The exploit bypasses WordPress core's save-time kses sanitization entirely because the payload uses only kses-allowed elements — an <abbr title> attribute and <code> text content — and the XSS is introduced post-save when the plugin's output-buffer rewriter substitutes a double-quote-bearing <code> body into the <abbr title> attribute via predictable, unsalted ___noise___ placeholder keys.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

Sources

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