CVE-2026-10513 (GCVE-0-2026-10513)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-30 18:32 – Updated: 2026-07-01 10:32
VLAI
Title
Webmention <= 5.8.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via MF2 'photo'/'url' Author Properties
Summary
The Webmention plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 5.8.0 via parser-derived 'avatar' and 'url' author metadata. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied MF2 author properties processed by the unauthenticated webmention REST endpoint and rendered directly into HTML 'value' attributes by the edit-comment-form template without esc_attr() or esc_url(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a privileged user (moderator or administrator) opens the affected comment edit screen.
Severity
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pfefferle Webmention Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.8.0 (semver)
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Credits
Volodymyr Kolesnykov
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