{"id":"CVE-2026-85001","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-85001","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:24:26.247Z","title":"The EmbedPress WordPress plugin before 4.6.7 does not sanitise and escape one of its Elementor widget settings before outputting it into an HTML attribute, which could allow users with the Contributor role or above to inject arbitrary web scripts that…","description":"The EmbedPress  WordPress plugin before 4.6.7 does not sanitise and escape one of its Elementor widget settings before outputting it into an HTML attribute, which could allow users with the Contributor role or above to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when the affected content is viewed.","published":"2026-09-30T06:17:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-30T16:28:32.000Z","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":0.00229,"percentile":0.13541,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-30","score":0.00152,"percentile":0.03719}]},"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":"2026-09-30T16:30:07.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"6.8","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 6.8 MEDIUM."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-30T06:17:06.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-09-30T06:17:05.957Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/889be882-342b-4331-89c5-9eebe90d3704/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85001","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."}