{"id":"CVE-2026-114570","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-114570","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:18:29.362Z","title":"WordPress Core is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Quick Edit in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.2 due to insufficient escaping of user display names.","description":"WordPress Core is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Quick Edit in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.2 due to insufficient escaping of user display names. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a higher privileged user accesses the affected administrative screens. This issue only affects sites with a large number of users.","published":"2026-10-22T06:17:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-22T19:17:37.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00225,"percentile":0.13136,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-22","score":0.0018,"percentile":0.07164}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-22T06:17:14.000Z","detail":{"score":"4.9","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T06:17:14.437Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 4.9)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/63061","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/wordpress-7-0-3-release/","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/92babbbf-74bd-474f-9057-c5022a7d64c7?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-114570","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."}