CVE•Published 2026-08-22•Modified 2026-08-26•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-76789
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
8
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 92% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation WordPress plugin before 9.1.3 does not have authorisation and nonce checks on two of its request handlers, and does not escape a stored setting before outputting it, allowing unauthenticated users to store malicious JavaScript which will be executed in the context of an administrator viewing the Slider Hero with Video Background, Animation WordPress plugin before 9.1.3's admin area, as well as any visitor of a page embedding a slider.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-22
Modified 2026-08-26
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-76789Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-76789Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-76789Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-76789GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-76789" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.