ShellCodeX vulnerability brief
UNASSESSED
Received
CVE-2026-13701
The Advanced Excerpt WordPress plugin before 4.5 does not sanitise and escape one of its settings before outputting it on the front end of the site, which could allow administrators (including those without the unfiltered_html capability, such as on multisite) to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that execute in the context of any visitor viewing affected pages.
Published 10 Aug 2026, 07:16 UTC
Last modified 10 Aug 2026, 07:16 UTC
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Attack profile
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Attack vector
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Attack complexity
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Privileges required
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User interaction
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Scope
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Confidentiality
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Integrity
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Availability
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Weakness classification
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