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CVE-2026-5717

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.4 Published: 2026-04-15 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References