{"cve":"CVE-2026-92097","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-14T02:17:01.397","modified":"2026-10-15T17:17:29.893","status":"Deferred","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","score":9.1},"cwes":["CWE-94"],"references":["https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/class-ht-ctc-chat-greetings.php#L111","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/class-ht-ctc-chat-greetings.php#L224","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/greetings-1.php#L22","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.44/new/inc/greetings/greetings-2.php#L18","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3716433/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/trunk/new/inc/greetings/greetings-1.php"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:59:28.494260111+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-92097","score":0.00525,"percentile":0.4423,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}