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Exploitation requires the malicious post to be published and displayed with a featured image in the Home Page blog section.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00194,"percentile":0.09122,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-05-02T09:26:16Z","modified":"2026-10-26T20:10:00Z","products":[{"vendor":"hashthemes","product":"total"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1749bef-0952-4530-b607-4574765d2700?source=cve"},{"url":"https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/320590/total"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5077"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5gp4-hrgf-7vj6"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-5077","title":"Total \u003c= 2.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Title in Blog Section Image alt Attribute","description":"The Total theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post titles in versions up to, and including, 2.2.1 due to insufficient output escaping when rendering the_title() inside HTML attribute context in the home blog section template. 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