Description
The Comments WordPress plugin before 7.6.60 does not properly escape a user-supplied URL before outputting it inside an HTML attribute, allowing unauthenticated users to store a Cross-Site Scripting payload that executes in the browser of any user, including administrators, who views the affected content.
References1
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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6.1
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 20 · as of 12 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-79
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