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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2026-84021

The Bold Page Builder WordPress plugin before 5.9.8 does not properly validate a link URL before outputting it in an HTML attribute, relying on a filter that can be evaded, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject arbitrary web…

MEDIUM 6.8EPSS 0.43%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.43%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The Bold Page Builder WordPress plugin before 5.9.8 does not properly validate a link URL before outputting it in an HTML attribute, relying on a filter that can be evaded, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when a user clicks the affected link.

CVSS 3.1
6.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.43% probability · 37th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Source
contact@wpscan.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 0.43%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 0.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.