CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-8875
The Easy Prism Syntax Highlighter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'code' (and 'c') shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.0.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied shortcode attributes in the shortcode() function, which concatenates the first positional attribute directly into the class attribute of the generated <pre>/<code> HTML without calling esc_attr() or any other escaping function. Thi
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Easy Prism Syntax Highlighter","vendor":"cuamckuy","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"1.0.2","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
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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_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2f38185ef7a358169da798dd1a9d25fc32d47a2112ccd7b9e0cfe126e1cc5819 · sha256:3ac9c3597abb7fff… · /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_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2f38185ef7a358169da798dd1a9d25fc32d47a2112ccd7b9e0cfe126e1cc5819 · sha256:3ac9c3597abb7fff… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
3 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-prism-syntax-highlighter/trunk/PrismSyntaxHighlither.php#L116"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2f38185ef7a358169da798dd1a9d25fc32d47a2112ccd7b9e0cfe126e1cc5819 · sha256:3ac9c3597abb7fff… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-prism-syntax-highlighter/trunk/PrismSyntaxHighlither.php#L123"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2f38185ef7a358169da798dd1a9d25fc32d47a2112ccd7b9e0cfe126e1cc5819 · sha256:3ac9c3597abb7fff… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aa690c4d-15c4-43bc-b8f7-017b7741c5cd?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2f38185ef7a358169da798dd1a9d25fc32d47a2112ccd7b9e0cfe126e1cc5819 · sha256:3ac9c3597abb7fff… · /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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