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CVE-2026-8896

The MIR blocks and shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title' attribute (and other attributes such as 'ready_animation_text') of the 'msc_stats' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied shortcode attributes inside the msc_stats() rendering function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arb

Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:b54538e670bd72a87fe05d598c16868a9128ebee5bbf25e83b58256a57e1176c

Known exploited

Not asserted

Disputed

Stale source

Conflicts

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion

{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"MIR blocks and shortcodes","vendor":"mirsoftware","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"1.0.0","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}

cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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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_v5cvss
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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
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Source references

3 source assertions

{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mir-blocks-and-shortcodes/trunk/frontend-templates/function/msc-stats.php#L22"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mir-blocks-and-shortcodes/trunk/frontend-templates/function/msc-stats.php#L44"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7d698be-fae6-4960-912a-1078ea407031?source=cve"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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Attribution and limitations

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

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