The Breakdance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fields' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.7.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Breakdance <= 2.7.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Webhook Action Details
Problem type
Affected products
Breakdance
<= 2.7.1 - AFFECTED
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/64f07bca-5d04-4b28-b775-f47ed692575e?source=cve
https://breakdance.com/breakdance-2-7-2-security-update/
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7
The Breakdance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fields'...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7The Breakdance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fields' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.7.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7543
https://breakdance.com/breakdance-2-7-2-security-update
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/64f07bca-5d04-4b28-b775-f47ed692575e?source=cve
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-7543Click to expand
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