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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2026-2430 EUVD-2026-13842GHSA-8wqg-98qw-6h95

Autoptimize <= 3.1.14 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Lazy-loaded Image Attributes

Published Mar 20, 2026 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The Autoptimize plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the lazy-loading image processing in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.14. This is due to the use of an overly permissive regular expression in the `add_lazyload` function that replaces all occurrences of `\ssrc=` in image tags without limiting to the actual attribute. 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 by crafting an image tag where the `src` URL contains a space followed by `src=`, causing the regex to break the HTML structure and promote text inside attribute values into executable HTML attributes.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
optimizingmatters Autoptimize ≤ 3.1.14 —

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