CVE-2026-15649

medium

Description

The Powerkit – Supercharge your WordPress Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.0 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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f86c6ada-112b-4b1f-b1ac-7dd4920953c8?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3629599/powerkit

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerkit/tags/3.1.0/modules/basic-elements/templates/progressbars.php#L109

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerkit/tags/3.1.0/modules/basic-elements/public/class-powerkit-basic-elements-public.php#L83

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerkit/tags/3.0.9/modules/basic-elements/templates/progressbars.php#L109

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerkit/tags/3.0.9/modules/basic-elements/public/class-powerkit-basic-elements-public.php#L83

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-01

Updated: 2026-08-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium