The jQuery Hover Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the jqFootnotes_options_subpanel function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings with arbitrary values that, because option values such as jqfoot_anchor_open, jqfoot_anchor_close, and jqfoot_title are echoed unescaped into frontend page content, can be chained into persistent Cross-Site Scripting affecting all site visitors via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Successful exploitation of the CSRF vulnerability can be chained into stored Cross-Site Scripting, as the overwritten option values are persisted via update_option() without sanitization and rendered unescaped on the frontend.

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Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

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Vendor Product Default status Versions
weaverlancegmailcom jQuery Hover Footnotes unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 1.4

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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L159 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L56 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-hover-footnotes/trunk/jqFootnotes.php#L57 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c174887b-e24d-4100-97da-8e0923ebafe5?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:45:00 +0000

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Description The jQuery Hover Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the jqFootnotes_options_subpanel function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings with arbitrary values that, because option values such as jqfoot_anchor_open, jqfoot_anchor_close, and jqfoot_title are echoed unescaped into frontend page content, can be chained into persistent Cross-Site Scripting affecting all site visitors via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Successful exploitation of the CSRF vulnerability can be chained into stored Cross-Site Scripting, as the overwritten option values are persisted via update_option() without sanitization and rendered unescaped on the frontend.
Title jQuery Hover Footnotes <= 1.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update
Weaknesses CWE-352
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-09T03:41:23.259Z

Reserved: 2026-06-01T13:54:24.821Z

Link: CVE-2026-10553

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-06-09T05:16:29.830

Modified: 2026-06-09T05:16:29.830

Link: CVE-2026-10553

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Updated: 2026-06-09T05:30:36Z

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