The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel & Photo Gallery, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Carousel & Product Grid for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the carousel widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-27891 The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel & Photo Gallery, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Carousel & Product Grid for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the carousel widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
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Solution

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Workaround

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History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Shapedplugin
Shapedplugin wp Carousel
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:shapedplugin:wp_carousel:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Shapedplugin
Shapedplugin wp Carousel

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel & Photo Gallery, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Carousel & Product Grid for WooCommerce <= 2.6.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'sp_wp_carousel_shortcode'
Weaknesses CWE-79

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:09:38.251Z

Reserved: 2024-03-26T17:02:59.831Z

Link: CVE-2024-2949

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:32:42.463Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-04-06T07:15:06.973

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:21:16.807

Link: CVE-2024-2949

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses