CVE-2026-5717
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
15/04/2026
Last modified:
15/04/2026
Description
The VI: Include Post By plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'class_container' attribute of the 'include-post-by-cat' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.4.200706 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vi-include-post-by/tags/0.4.200706/vi_include_post_by.php#L809
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vi-include-post-by/trunk/vi_include_post_by.php#L809
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3e95dc2-0f50-4009-9cc0-a02f9977ce58?source=cve



