CVE-2026-81571

4.8 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (4.8). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Brave WordPress plugin before 0.8.8 does not prevent a URL parameter used to pre-fill a form field from being passed to WordPress's shortcode engine, allowing unauthenticated attackers to have arbitrary shortcodes registered on the site executed server-side.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.8 medium

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-74
Published: 2026-09-02
Modified: 2026-09-03
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/049d0bfc-962b-4f5b-a089-c45f4ad981e3/

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