CVE-2026-92097
9.1 CRITICALPublished 2026-10-14 · Updated 2026-10-15
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- The Click to Chat for WhatsApp plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes through a vulnerability in how it processes URL placeholders in archive pages, potentially leading to remote code execution via shortcode execution.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation is straightforward with no special preconditions required, as attackers can simply craft a malicious URL that triggers the vulnerable greetings_dialog() function on archive pages.
- Blast radius
- The impact could be significant across many WordPress sites using this plugin, potentially allowing attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes and gain remote code execution capabilities.
- Detection
- No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
- Prioritized remediation
- Upgrade to version 4.45 or later to remediate this vulnerability.
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NVD description
The Click to Chat for WhatsApp plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution in versions up to, and including, 4.44 This is due to the greetings_dialog() function building the {url} template placeholder from a sanitize_text_field()-filtered $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] on archive pages and then passing the substituted greeting content to do_shortcode() in the greetings-1 and greetings-2 templates, without stripping shortcode delimiters. Because wp_kses() runs against main_content BEFORE the {url} substitution, the attacker-controlled URL bytes reach do_shortcode() unfiltered. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes registered by WordPress core, the active theme, or any other plugin (e.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-94
All references
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/class-ht-ctc-chat-greetings.php#L111
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/class-ht-ctc-chat-greetings.php#L224
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/greetings-1.php#L22
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/greetings-2.php#L18
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3716433/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/trunk/new/inc/greetings/greetings-1.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cf625e34-1f51-42a3-8daa-a5188dea226e?source=cve
Source data: NVD (nvd.nist.gov), public domain. Exploit-DB.ai adds local AI analysis for defensive use only.
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