CVE-2026-93485highobserved exploitationCWE-79

CVE-2026-93485: high-severity vulnerability in Automattic WordPress

WordPress Core <= 7.1 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

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80Vexday Risk Score

Patch now. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck, has an official Brazilian government alert and has a working public exploit.

ssvc Actcvss 7.1epss 0.8%
from disclosure to weapon4 days
Published on NVDSep 18
1st PoC+4d
VulnCheckSep 18
Official alert in Brazil

Brazil's federal government published an alert, recommendation or bulletin that cites this vulnerability.

Source: CTIR Gov (GSI) and CISC Gov.br, under the CC BY-ND 3.0 license.
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Automattic WordPress wordpress allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects WordPress: from n/a through 7.1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
Automattic · WordPress
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