CVE-2026-10513
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Webmention plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 5.8.0 via parser-derived 'avatar' and 'url' author metadata. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied MF2 author properties processed by the unauthenticated webmention REST endpoint and rendered directly into HTML 'value' attributes by the edit-comment-form template without esc_attr() or esc_url(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a privileged user (moderator or administrator) opens the affected comment edit screen.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| pfefferle | Webmention | 0 <= 5.8.0 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: yes
- Technical Impact: partial
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5a4e144a-3c84-4da3-8fa6-e5fe9c897efe?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webmention/tags/5.7.0/templates/edit-comment-form.php#L15
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webmention/tags/5.7.0/includes/handler/class-mf2.php#L129
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3583033/webmention
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