Vulnerabilities / Aurora Heatmap / WPSEC-2026-0321
Aurora Heatmap <= 1.7.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Report URL
Medium 6.1
CWE-79Fixed in 1.7.3
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-0321
- Plugin
- Aurora Heatmap (aurora-heatmap)
- Affected
- all versions before 1.7.3
- Remediation
- Update to 1.7.3 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-22
- Attack surface
- Aurora Heatmap on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Also published later by Wordfence as CVE-2026-94154, on 2026-10-07.
Description
The Aurora Heatmap plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the recorded page URL in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1. The cause is that the front-end tracking AJAX handler accepts any syntactically valid URL, including javascript: URLs, and the admin heatmap report list prints these URLs into link href attributes with only esc_attr(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when an administrator clicks the malicious link in the heatmap report.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0321/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/aurora-heatmap/tags/1.7.3/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/aurora-heatmap/
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