CVE-2026-12108
Description
The Highlighting Code Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/highlighting-code-block/tags/2.1.3/class/loos_hcb.php#L158
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/highlighting-code-block/tags/2.1.3/class/loos_hcb_menu.php#L23
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/highlighting-code-block/tags/2.1.3/class/loos_hcb_scripts.php#L69
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/highlighting-code-block/tags/2.2.0/class/loos_hcb.php#L158
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/highlighting-code-block/tags/2.2.0/class/loos_hcb_menu.php#L23
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/highlighting-code-block/tags/2.2.0/class/loos_hcb_scripts.php#L69
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3592103%40highlighting-code-block&new=3592103%40highlighting-code-block
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/166e1d3a-3fd9-4ab0-ba0d-707c6d59e0cd?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.