CVE-2026-56007
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in OceanWP Ocean Product Sharing allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Ocean Product Sharing: from n/a through 2.2.2.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the OceanWP Ocean Product Sharing WordPress plugin versions up to 2.2.2. The plugin fails to properly sanitize and escape user-supplied input before rendering it in web pages, allowing authenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript code that executes in the browsers of users who view the affected content.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- High
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Locate the Ocean Product Sharing pluginNavigate to your WordPress installation's wp-content/plugins/ directory and look for a folder named 'ocean-product-sharing' or similar. If using WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and search for Ocean Product Sharing.Affected if The plugin folder is present in the plugins directory
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Check the installed versionOpen the main plugin PHP file (usually ocean-product-sharing.php) and locate the 'Version' header in the plugin comment block, or check the readme.txt file for the 'Stable tag' entry.Affected if The version listed is 2.2.2 or any earlier version (e.g., 2.2.1, 2.2.0, 1.x)
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Verify the plugin is activeIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and confirm the Ocean Product Sharing plugin shows as 'Active', or check the wp_options table for the active_plugins entry.Affected if The plugin is currently active on the WordPress site
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Confirm no XSS filtering is applied to sharing inputsIf you have access to the plugin settings, locate the product sharing functionality and inspect whether user-supplied product fields (title, description, price) are being rendered without proper output escaping (wp_esc_html, esc_attr, etc.).Affected if User-supplied product data can be saved and displayed without sanitization
If the Ocean Product Sharing plugin is installed, active, and version 2.2.2 or earlier, the environment is vulnerable to stored XSS via unsanitized user input.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade to version 2.2.3 or later which contains the security fix. Until patched, restrict backend access to trusted users only to reduce exploitation risk.
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- Implementation3.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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