Description
The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via User Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is exploitable by Subscriber-level users because WordPress core's sanitize_text_field() preserves HTML-entity-encoded payloads (e.g., an iframe srcdoc attribute), allowing the encoded string to be stored as a display name without requiring the unfiltered_html capability, and the plugin subsequently decodes it server-side before rendering.
Published: 2026-09-25
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Wordplus
Wordplus better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & Ai Chat Bots
Wordpress
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Vendors & Products Wordplus
Wordplus better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & Ai Chat Bots
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000

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Description The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via User Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is exploitable by Subscriber-level users because WordPress core's sanitize_text_field() preserves HTML-entity-encoded payloads (e.g., an iframe srcdoc attribute), allowing the encoded string to be stored as a display name without requiring the unfiltered_html capability, and the plugin subsequently decodes it server-side before rendering.
Title Better Messages <= 3.0.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via User Display Name
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Wordplus Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & Ai Chat Bots
Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-25T06:39:57.796Z

Reserved: 2026-09-21T12:29:44.177Z

Link: CVE-2026-94376

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-25T07:16:56.753

Modified: 2026-09-25T07:16:56.753

Link: CVE-2026-94376

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No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-25T09:30:07Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-79

    Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')