CVE-2026-7796

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Description

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

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a0b5b6bc-5f4f-4cf8-987e-b20e8354d863?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3546981%40embedpress&new=3546981%40embedpress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/trunk/EmbedPress/Includes/Classes/Helper.php#L1659

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/trunk/EmbedPress/Gutenberg/EmbedPressBlockRenderer.php#L133

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/trunk/EmbedPress/Gutenberg/EmbedPressBlockRenderer.php#L1181

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/4.5.1/EmbedPress/Includes/Classes/Helper.php#L1659

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/4.5.1/EmbedPress/Gutenberg/EmbedPressBlockRenderer.php#L133

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/4.5.1/EmbedPress/Gutenberg/EmbedPressBlockRenderer.php#L1181

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/4.4.11/EmbedPress/Includes/Classes/Helper.php#L1659

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/4.4.11/EmbedPress/Gutenberg/EmbedPressBlockRenderer.php#L133

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/4.4.11/EmbedPress/Gutenberg/EmbedPressBlockRenderer.php#L1181

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-06

Updated: 2026-06-06

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

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00056