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The WP NG Weather plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ng-weather' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
AnalysisAI
The WP NG Weather plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the 'ng-weather' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes. All versions up to and including 1.0.9 are affected, allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level privileges or higher to inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes when users visit pages containing the malicious shortcode. With a CVSS score of 6.4 and network-accessible attack vector, this vulnerability poses a moderate risk to WordPress installations using this plugin.
Technical ContextAI
The vulnerability is rooted in CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), a fundamental web application security flaw affecting server-side template rendering. The WP NG Weather plugin (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:tonysamperi:wp_ng_weather:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) fails to properly sanitize and escape shortcode attributes before rendering them in page templates. Code review of the affected versions (specifically wp-weather.php line 49 and templates/app.php line 5 per plugin repository references) reveals that user input passed through the shortcode parser is rendered directly into the DOM without WordPress escaping functions like esc_attr() or wp_kses_post(). This allows attackers to break out of attribute context and inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript payloads that execute in the browsers of site visitors.
RemediationAI
Site administrators should immediately upgrade the WP NG Weather plugin to a version later than 1.0.9 if available from the plugin developer (version status should be verified at https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-ng-weather or the official WordPress.org plugin page). If no patched version is available, consider disabling or removing the plugin entirely until a security update is released. As an interim mitigation, restrict the 'ng-weather' shortcode usage to pages edited only by fully trusted administrators, and audit all existing pages using this shortcode for injected content. Additionally, implement WordPress user role restrictions to limit contributor-level access to only necessary personnel, and monitor page edit logs for suspicious activity. Keep WordPress and all plugins updated to ensure core security patches for related XSS protections are in place.
Same weakness CWE-79 – Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
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EUVD-2026-14008
GHSA-rjxq-f5q8-7r4g