XSS in Hoosierdragon Text Toggle
CVE-2026-3997
The Text Toggle plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title' shortcode attribute of the [tt_part] and [tt] shortcodes in all versions up to and including 1.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. Specifically, in the avp_texttoggle_part_shortcode() function, the 'title' attribute is extracted from shortcode attributes and concatenated directly into HTML output without any escaping — both within an HTML attribute context (title="...") on line 116 and in HTML content on line 119. While the 'class' attribute is properly validated using ctype_alnum(), the 'title' attribute has no sanitization whatsoever. An attacker can inject double-quote characters to break out of the title attribute and inject arbitrary HTML attributes including event handlers. 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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (32.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 33rd percentile — 32.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.002
Affected products
- Hoosierdragon Text Toggle — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7ac0683-120f-4e76-9d44-5ee1c…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/trunk/avp-texttoggle.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/tags/1.1/avp-texttoggle.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/trunk/avp-texttoggle.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/tags/1.1/avp-texttoggle.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/trunk/avp-texttoggle.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/tags/1.1/avp-texttoggle.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/trunk/avp-texttoggle.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-toggle/tags/1.1/avp-texttoggle.php
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-3997?
- CVE-2026-3997 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hoosierdragon Text Toggle, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2026-03-21.
- How severe is CVE-2026-3997?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.