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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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00249,"percentile":0.16414,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-03-21T03:26:49Z","modified":"2026-06-17T10:44:35Z","products":[{"vendor":"sammyb","product":"wp games embed"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6a8cc968-01a5-45b8-bee8-86c858f86514?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/trunk/wp-games-embed.php#L41"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/tags/0.1/wp-games-embed.php#L41"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/trunk/wp-games-embed.php#L32"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/tags/0.1/wp-games-embed.php#L32"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/trunk/wp-games-embed.php#L35"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/tags/0.1/wp-games-embed.php#L35"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/trunk/wp-games-embed.php#L14"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/tags/0.1/wp-games-embed.php#L14"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3996"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4274-9vhj-c283"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-3996","title":"WP Games Embed \u003c= 0.1beta - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes","description":"The WP Games Embed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the [game] shortcode in all versions up to and including 0.1beta. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes such as 'width', 'height', 'src', 'title', 'description', 'game_url', 'main', and 'thumb', which are all directly concatenated into HTML output without any escaping. 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.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-21T03:26:49.724Z","modified":"2026-04-08T16:58:51.963Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:49:09.229322Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-14190","description":"The WP Games Embed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the [game] shortcode in all versions up to and including 0.1beta. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes such as 'width', 'height', 'src', 'title', 'description', 'game_url', 'main', and 'thumb', which are all directly concatenated into HTML output without any escaping. 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.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-21T03:26:49Z","modified":"2026-04-08T16:58:51Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:24:55.171409Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-4274-9vhj-c283","title":"The WP Games Embed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ...","description":"The WP Games Embed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the [game] shortcode in all versions up to and including 0.1beta. 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