CVE-2026-8494
Description
The Permalink Manager Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post titles in the admin URI Editor interface in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.3.3 due to insufficient output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in the admin Permalink Manager page that will execute whenever an administrator accesses the Permalink Manager page.
Predictions
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.
✚ 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://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/221c62a8-09c9-405a-bddf-06638437bd39?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/permalink-manager/trunk/includes/views/permalink-manager-uri-editor-post.php#L150
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/permalink-manager/tags/2.5.3.1/includes/views/permalink-manager-uri-editor-post.php#L150
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/permalink-manager/tags/2.5.3.3/includes/views/permalink-manager-uri-editor-post.php#L150
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/permalink-manager/tags/2.5.3.4/includes/views/permalink-manager-uri-editor-post.php
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.