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CVE-2026-3995

The OPEN-BRAIN plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'API Key' settings field in all versions up to, and including, 0.5.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. The plugin uses sanitize_text_field() which strips HTML tags but does not encode double quotes or other HTML-special characters needed for safe attribute context output. The API key value is saved via update_option() and later output into an HTML input element's value attr
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:2b5fdb7eadde5f6b8f5ce84a3f1af55fc06751db7dd004abca30cba9596022fe
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"OPEN-BRAIN","vendor":"faridsaniee","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"0.5.0","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":4.4,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-79","description":"CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

9 source assertions
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/open-brain/tags/0.5.0/index.php#L128"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/references/8
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/open-brain/tags/0.5.0/index.php#L252"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/open-brain/tags/0.5.0/index.php#L253"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/open-brain/tags/0.5.0/index.php#L272"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/open-brain/trunk/index.php#L128"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/references/7
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/open-brain/trunk/index.php#L252"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/open-brain/trunk/index.php#L253"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/open-brain/trunk/index.php#L272"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3fe3fa95-cc1d-469b-8a97-37987b9ae362?source=cve"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f793773a58e16d87f5c0f5a98c604903c2d5a25c6dc7c4bfc2dafdf413894e3b · sha256:cb15034cc66e2a9b… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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