CVE-2026-92097
9.1, criticalHolithemes Click to Chat - HoliThemes Code Injection Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 9.1, critical critical CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.5% higher than 43.2% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- No public evidence
- Published
- 14 Oct 20263 days ago
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.
Details
- Vendor
- Holithemes
- Product
- Click to Chat - HoliThemes
- Weakness
- CWE-94 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Deferred
- Updated
- 14 Oct 2026
- Assigner
- security@wordfence.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
References 6
Other references 6
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/class-ht-ctc-chat-greetings.php#L111 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/class-ht-ctc-chat-greetings.php#L224 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/greetings-1.php#L22 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/greetings-2.php#L18 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset/3716433/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/trunk/new/inc/greetings/greetings-1.php (opens in a new tab)
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cf625e34-1f51-42a3-8daa-a5188dea226e?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.