CVE-2026-16537CWE-79cross-site-scripting
CVE-2026-16537
Medium · published August 6, 2026
What it is
The Slick Slider WordPress plugin before 0.5.3 does not sanitize and escape a shortcode attribute value before outputting it in an HTML attribute, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that execute when a user views the affected post.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 5.4 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00226 · 12.6th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- Published
- 2026-08-06T11:16Z
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