CVE-2026-9626
Essential information
- Published
- 03/07/2026 08:16
- Modified
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- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 6.4 MEDIUM (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-79
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N—
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Privileges required
- LOW
- User interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- LOW
- Integrity impact
- LOW
- Availability impact
- NONE
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Description
The JSON API User plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'content' parameter of the post_comment API endpoint in versions up to, and including, 4.1.0 This is due to insufficient input sanitization in the post_comment() function, which passes the attacker-controlled comment_content value directly to wp_insert_comment() without applying any HTML sanitization, and additionally allows the caller to set comment_approved=1 to self-approve the comment and bypass moderation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
NVD status
- NVD
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