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CVE-2026-12939

Cross-site Scripting: Is CVE-2026-12939 real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.

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Exploited in wild
Not listed
CISA KEV
Public exploit
None known
Metasploit/EDB/PoC
Base severity
6.4 Medium
CVSS
Exploitation prob.
n/a
FIRST EPSS
Weakness
CWE-79 · Cross-site Scripting
CWE

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The Newsletters Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'link' attribute of the post_thumbnail (and newsletters_post_thumbnail) shortcodes in versions up to and including 4.15. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the post_thumbnail() method in helpers/shortcode.php, which concatenates the user-controlled $link shortcode attribute directly into an href attribute without esc_url() or esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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    Same weakness: CWE-79 · Cross-site Scripting.