CVE-2026-16623

8.0 highEPSS 0.5%

High (8.0). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Create Block WordPress plugin before 2.10.0 does not correctly escape user-supplied text before writing it into a generated PHP pattern file, allowing a multisite subsite administrator (who holds the capability gating this action but is denied the capability that normally gates PHP file editing) to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code on the server.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.0 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-94
Published: 2026-08-04
Modified: 2026-08-26
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/19c7fdaa-5e75-481d-884c-68fdb2fb8f8d/

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