CVE-2026-8886

Description

The hk_shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title-plane' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes in the huankong_post_short_title_plane() function, where the 'title' attribute is concatenated directly into HTML output without any escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ed1a7872-e268-460d-82f1-b047335a9977?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hk-shortcode/tags/1.0/function/shortcode.php#L8
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hk-shortcode/tags/1.0/function/shortcode.php#L6

CWEs

CWE-79

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