CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-8883
The Global Body Mass Index Calculator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gbmicalc' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes in the GBMI_Calc_Widget::widget() function. Shortcode attributes are extracted directly into local variables via @extract($args) and then echoed unescaped into an HTML style attribute (height/width) and HTML body context (t
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Global Body Mass Index Calculator","vendor":"helpstring","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"1.2","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:v2:232ae5445cccda21ed09488810950f1d8e0c788aa88af547240f71337204fa40 · sha256:a3df514e59afb50f… · /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:v2:232ae5445cccda21ed09488810950f1d8e0c788aa88af547240f71337204fa40 · sha256:a3df514e59afb50f… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
5 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/global-body-mass-index-calculator/tags/1.2/gbmicalc.php#L134"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:232ae5445cccda21ed09488810950f1d8e0c788aa88af547240f71337204fa40 · sha256:a3df514e59afb50f… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/global-body-mass-index-calculator/tags/1.2/gbmicalc.php#L335"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:232ae5445cccda21ed09488810950f1d8e0c788aa88af547240f71337204fa40 · sha256:a3df514e59afb50f… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/global-body-mass-index-calculator/tags/1.2/gbmicalc.php#L345"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:232ae5445cccda21ed09488810950f1d8e0c788aa88af547240f71337204fa40 · sha256:a3df514e59afb50f… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/global-body-mass-index-calculator/tags/1.2/gbmicalc.php#L476"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:232ae5445cccda21ed09488810950f1d8e0c788aa88af547240f71337204fa40 · sha256:a3df514e59afb50f… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/06804bed-17c5-413c-a31b-f6f039015e26?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:232ae5445cccda21ed09488810950f1d8e0c788aa88af547240f71337204fa40 · sha256:a3df514e59afb50f… · /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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