CVE-2026-96870: brainstormforce suredash – community, courses & member dashboard Cross-site Scripting

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-96870 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in brainstormforce suredash – community, courses & member dashboard. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 16-10-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-10-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.0 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. The exploit is triggered when any user hovers over a comment's like counter on a community page, as the plugin's tooltip handler assigns the attacker-controlled data-tooltip-description attribute value directly to innerHTML, re-parsing the browser-decoded entity payload as live HTML.

• CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.