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MEDIUM

CVE-2026-7796

CVE-2026-7796 — EmbedPress <= 4.5.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Block 'url' Attribute

The EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed PDF viewer, YouTube Videos, 3D FlipBook, Social feeds & more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the block 'url' attribute in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, Wordfence

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

0%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

wpdevteam

embedpress_pdf_embedder_embed_pdf_viewer_youtube_videos_3d_flipbook_social_feeds_more

CVSS base

6.4

MEDIUM

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

No

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Partial

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

wpdevteam

Products (1)

embedpress pdf embedder embed pdf viewer youtube videos 3d flipbook social feeds more

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
6.4CVSS 3.1MEDIUM——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-79

References

11 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.