{"id":"CVE-2026-113499","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-113499","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:27:42.028Z","title":"The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 7.9.2 does not restrict one of its HTML rewriting routines to stylesheet content, so it removes a quote that terminates an attribute in the rendered page, and combined with unescaped comment author output this…","description":"The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 7.9.2 does not restrict one of its HTML rewriting routines to stylesheet content, so it removes a quote that terminates an attribute in the rendered page, and combined with unescaped comment author output this allows unauthenticated users whose comment is published to inject attributes that execute JavaScript in the browser of any visitor, including a logged-in administrator, who views front-end pages while the affected option is enabled.","published":"2026-10-23T06:17:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-23T14:20:58.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00304,"percentile":0.23035,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-23","score":0.00187,"percentile":0.07852}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-23T14:00:17.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"7.5","severity":"HIGH","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 7.5 HIGH."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-23T06:17:06.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-23T06:17:06.490Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.5)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f04afdab-33fb-41a9-9270-908673998bb8/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-113499","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}