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Vulnerability in Advanced Popups — CVE-2026-11996

MediumSeverity
CVSS 6.4
0.2%Estimated exploit probability
EPSS
60,000+ sitesInstalls
1.2.4Fixed in

What to do now

Update Advanced Popups to 1.2.4 or later.

Affected versions

  • Everything up to and including 1.2.3

Affected: Advanced Popups (plugin, advanced-popups)

Check: The plugin on wordpress.org / Our record for Advanced Popups

What the vulnerability is

The Advanced Popups plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Notification Button Link' Field in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

Sources

Part of this record comes from Wordfence Intelligence. Original: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ff6b9c3e-b716-4b58-80fa-f1f115856c6c
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