CVE-2026-96531 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Optimole WordPress plugin before 4.2.13 does not escape unrecognized attributes of its video-player block before rendering them onto the block's wrapper element, allowing users with the Author role and above to store an event-handler attribute that executes scripts in the browser of any user, such as an administrator, who views the post.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Wordpress-extensions	Optimole

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/15ad5748-8c2b-4c60-9818-57790f7033c7/

History

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Wordpress-extensions Wordpress-extensions optimole
Vendors & Products		Wordpress-extensions Wordpress-extensions optimole

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Optimole WordPress plugin before 4.2.13 does not escape unrecognized attributes of its video-player block before rendering them onto the block's wrapper element, allowing users with the Author role and above to store an event-handler attribute that executes scripts in the browser of any user, such as an administrator, who views the post.
Title		Optimole 4.0.0 - 4.2.12 - Author+ Stored XSS via Video Player Block
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/15ad5748-8c2b-4c60-9818-57790f7033c7/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-09-26T06:00:21.129Z

Updated: 2026-09-26T22:41:13.936Z

Reserved: 2026-09-23T11:22:24.455Z

Link: CVE-2026-96531

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-26T22:32:00.395Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-26T07:17:03.430

Modified: 2026-09-28T15:17:09.083

Link: CVE-2026-96531

Redhat

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