CVE-2026-16623

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-94 Code Injection

Publication date:

04/08/2026

Last modified:

04/08/2026

Description

The Create Block WordPress plugin before 2.10.0 does not correctly escape user-supplied text before writing it into a generated PHP pattern file, allowing a multisite subsite administrator (who holds the capability gating this action but is denied the capability that normally gates PHP file editing) to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code on the server.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.00 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.00

Severity 3.x

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/19c7fdaa-5e75-481d-884c-68fdb2fb8f8d/