Modern Footnotes Vulnerabilities

The Modern Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.4.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in page...

CVSS:

6.4

Affected:

up to 1.4.19

Fixed in:

1.4.20

Disclosed:

Jun 19, 2025

CVE-2025-50049 on NVD →

The Modern Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.4.16 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level pe...

CVSS:

6.4

Affected:

up to 1.4.16

Fixed in:

1.4.17

Disclosed:

Oct 19, 2023

CVE-2023-5618 on NVD →

The Modern Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in versions up to, and including, 1.4.15 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arb...

CVSS:

4.4

Affected:

up to 1.4.15

Fixed in:

1.4.16

Disclosed:

Mar 14, 2023

CVE-2023-28423 on NVD →