CVE-2026-6809
Published: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:16
Summary
The Social Post Embed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Threads embed handler in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.1. This is due to insufficient input san
Details
The Social Post Embed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Threads embed handler in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the user-supplied URL. 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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References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-post-embed/tags/2.0.1/inc/threads.php#L64
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-post-embed/tags/2.0.2/inc/threads.php#L49
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-post-embed/tags/2.0.2/inc/threads.php#L50
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-post-embed/tags/2.0.2/inc/threads.php#L61
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-post-embed/trunk/inc/threads.php#L64
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4c16841d-8878-4328-a5dc-113d213cca33?source=cve
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