CVE-2026-18395 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

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Vendors	Products

References

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

History

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/999656c5-2e2d-4af8-9941-36184545f487/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-08-06T06:00:11.745Z

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

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

Link: CVE-2026-18395

Vulnrichment

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

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-06T15:15:12Z

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