{"id":"CVE-2026-78392","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-78392","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:57:20.476Z","title":"The Link Library WordPress plugin before 7.9.6 does not sanitise and escape a link field before outputting it inside an attribute of a link preview, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.","description":"The Link Library WordPress plugin before 7.9.6 does not sanitise and escape a link field before outputting it inside an attribute of a link preview, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. The preview is generated without authentication and without checking whether the link has been published, so an unapproved submission is enough to reach any visitor who opens it.","published":"2026-10-22T06:17:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-22T15:16:14.000Z","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":0.00337,"percentile":0.26932,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-22","score":0.00186,"percentile":0.07771}]},"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 (0.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-22T13:00:14.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"6.8","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 6.8 MEDIUM."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-22T06:17:15.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-22T06:17:15.303Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/35b66d43-c1ce-456b-832b-fb6eda365d93/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78392","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."}