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CVE-2026-3996

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
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:6df13b942a0390de0b456036b4370c8c0a1aa2396c4c0b3d3fde94deb8f949cf
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"WP Games Embed","vendor":"sammyb","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"0.1beta","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":6.4,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /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:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

9 source assertions
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/tags/0.1/wp-games-embed.php#L14"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/references/8
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/tags/0.1/wp-games-embed.php#L32"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/tags/0.1/wp-games-embed.php#L35"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/tags/0.1/wp-games-embed.php#L41"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/trunk/wp-games-embed.php#L14"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/references/7
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/trunk/wp-games-embed.php#L32"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/trunk/wp-games-embed.php#L35"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-games-embed/trunk/wp-games-embed.php#L41"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6a8cc968-01a5-45b8-bee8-86c858f86514?source=cve"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:167751242039f8235c7ce22ecfb86d857068b97b12b91a3e4b782dcb53c57b4e · sha256:fa8f5d88a4a94c3f… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

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

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