CVE•Published 2026-09-12•Modified 2026-09-12•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-86790
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
6.8
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
—
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The WP Highlight Box WordPress plugin through 1.0 does not escape some shortcode attributes before outputting them in a page where the shortcode is embedded, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Timeline
Published 2026-09-12
Modified 2026-09-12
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-2026-86790Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-86790Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-86790Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-86790GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-86790" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-86790 on GitHub.
We haven't classified any articles referencing CVE-2026-86790 yet. The external references above still apply.