The Social Chat – Click To Chat App Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'consent_message' JSON Attribute in .qlwapp data-box in all versions up to, and including, 8.6.2 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 pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The exploit requires no user interaction beyond page load, as setting auto_open and consent_enabled to 'yes' in the injected data-box JSON causes the consent box — and the embedded script — to execute immediately on page load.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
quadlayers Social Chat – Click To Chat App Button unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 8.6.2

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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-whatsapp-chat/tags/8.5.1/build/frontend/js/index.js#L2 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-whatsapp-chat/tags/8.5.1/lib/controllers/class-frontend.php#L86 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-whatsapp-chat/tags/8.6.1/build/frontend/js/index.js#L2 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-whatsapp-chat/tags/8.6.1/lib/controllers/class-frontend.php#L86 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fwp-whatsapp-chat/tags/8.6.2&new_path=%2Fwp-whatsapp-chat/tags/8.6.3 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3667778%40wp-whatsapp-chat%2Ftags%2F8.6.3&old=3664149%40wp-whatsapp-chat%2Ftags%2F8.6.2 cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f159392b-5bc6-4c12-a924-13ea170bb7fa?source=cve cve-icon
History

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:45:00 +0000

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Description The Social Chat – Click To Chat App Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'consent_message' JSON Attribute in .qlwapp data-box in all versions up to, and including, 8.6.2 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 pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The exploit requires no user interaction beyond page load, as setting auto_open and consent_enabled to 'yes' in the injected data-box JSON causes the consent box — and the embedded script — to execute immediately on page load.
Title Social Chat <= 8.6.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'consent_message' JSON Attribute in .qlwapp data-box
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-05T05:30:56.592Z

Reserved: 2026-07-30T15:54:28.110Z

Link: CVE-2026-18404

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