CVE-2026-6962 Cross-site scripting in Cost of Goods: Product Cost & Profit Calculator for WooCommerce
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via shortcodes, leading to script execution when other users view the page.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-6962?
CVE-2026-6962 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpcodefactory Cost of Goods: Product Cost & Profit Calculator for WooCommerce, published on 13 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Cost of Goods: Product Cost & Profit Calculator for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'alg_wc_cog_product_cost' and 'alg_wc_cog_product_profit' shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.0 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.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-6962?
How do I fix CVE-2026-6962?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-6962 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2026-6962 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-6962 in the wild and no public exploit code.