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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":0.00198,"percentile":0.09597,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-05-27T05:31:32Z","modified":"2026-06-17T11:04:34Z","products":[{"vendor":"huankong","product":"hk_shortcode"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ed1a7872-e268-460d-82f1-b047335a9977?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hk-shortcode/tags/1.0/function/shortcode.php#L8"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hk-shortcode/tags/1.0/function/shortcode.php#L6"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8886"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r95h-x8fx-8ph9"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-8886","title":"hk_shortcode \u003c= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'title' Shortcode Attribute","description":"The hk_shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title-plane' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes in the huankong_post_short_title_plane() function, where the 'title' attribute is concatenated directly 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":"2026-05-27T05:31:32.499Z","modified":"2026-05-27T10:31:59.518Z","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":"2026-11-02T13:48:02.226896Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-32091","description":"The hk_shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title-plane' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.0. 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This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes in the huankong_post_short_title_plane() function, where the 'title' attribute is concatenated directly 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":"2026-05-27T07:16:17.363Z","modified":"2026-06-17T11:04:34.69Z","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":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:20.511562Z"}]}}