{"id":"CVE-2026-12980","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-12980","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:56:50.336Z","title":"The Post Snippets WordPress plugin through 4.2.4 does not properly escape variable values substituted into snippets before outputting them, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when the content…","description":"The Post Snippets  WordPress plugin through 4.2.4 does not properly escape variable values substituted into snippets before outputting them, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when the content is viewed.","published":"2026-10-11T07:17:24.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-13T20:36:01.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00282,"percentile":0.20517,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-11","score":0.00163,"percentile":0.05075}]},"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 (0.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-11T13:30:07.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"6.8","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 6.8 MEDIUM."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-11T07:17:24.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-11T07:17:23.890Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/288d419a-9e27-45ae-bde1-1aef52532354/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12980","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."}