CVE-2026-84829

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Assigned by CNA: wpscan

Published 2026-09-16 · Modified 2026-09-16

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

The Optimole WordPress plugin before 4.2.12 does not properly escape a user supplied value before using it to build an image tag attribute, allowing unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary attributes into pages served to every visitor, which leads to Stored Cross-Site Scripting.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c8489eb1-e767-4b19-a7c0-124eab843d9e/

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.