CVE-2026-22352
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-22352 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 14.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2026-22352 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79. It affects the Persian Woocommerce SMS WordPress plugin by PersianScript, with the issue present in all versions from n/a through 7.1.1. The vulnerability was published on 2026-02-20 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L).
Attackers can exploit this reflected XSS over the network with low attack complexity and no required privileges, though it necessitates user interaction, such as a victim visiting a crafted URL. Exploitation executes arbitrary scripts in the context of the victim's browser, enabling low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a changed scope that may affect other users or components.
Mitigation details are available in advisories like the Patchstack database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/persian-woocommerce-sms/vulnerability/wordpress-persian-woocommerce-sms-plugin-7-1-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-7479
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in PersianScript Persian Woocommerce SMS persian-woocommerce-sms allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Persian Woocommerce SMS: from n/a through <= 7.1.1.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of a web application vulnerability via crafted URLs to execute scripts in victim browsers.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and neutralization of untrusted input before it is used in web page generation, preventing the reflected XSS payload from executing.
Requires filtering and encoding of information outputs so that reflected user-supplied data cannot contain executable scripts in the victim's browser context.
Provides malicious-code detection mechanisms that can identify and block common XSS payloads delivered via crafted URLs or requests.