The Child Pages Card WordPress plugin before 1.09 does not sanitise and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page, allowing users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00152.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Unknown Child Pages Card unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected < 1.09

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Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/999656c5-2e2d-4af8-9941-36184545f487/ cve-icon
History

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-79

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:30:00 +0000

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Description The Child Pages Card WordPress plugin before 1.09 does not sanitise and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page, allowing users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Title Child Pages Card < 1.09 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode Attributes
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-06T12:39:59.765Z

Reserved: 2026-07-30T14:48:30.955Z

Link: CVE-2026-18395

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-06T12:39:56.029Z

cve-icon NVD

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-06T07:30:16Z

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