{"id":"CVE-2026-78394","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-78394","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:32:07.025Z","title":"The Link Library WordPress plugin before 7.9.6 does not sanitize a user-supplied destination folder before writing a generated image to disk, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to create directories and write or overwrite image files…","description":"The Link Library WordPress plugin before 7.9.6 does not sanitize a user-supplied destination folder before writing a generated image to disk, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to create directories and write or overwrite image files anywhere the web server can write, including outside the site's document root.\n\nThe written file name is always numeric with a fixed image extension, so executable code cannot be planted this way.","published":"2026-09-25T07:16:54.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-25T13:25:49.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00233,"percentile":0.14104,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-25","score":0.00157,"percentile":0.0413}]},"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 (0.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-09-25T13:45:18.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"4.1","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 4.1 MEDIUM."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-25T07:16:54.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-09-25T07:16:54.437Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 4.1)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9da07b4f-5332-4ba5-8a34-6f2ed303b62c/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78394","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."}