CVE-2026-84829

8.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (8.8). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Optimole WordPress plugin before 4.2.12 does not properly escape a user supplied value before using it to build an image tag attribute, allowing unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary attributes into pages served to every visitor, which leads to Stored Cross-Site Scripting.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2026-09-16
Modified: 2026-09-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c8489eb1-e767-4b19-a7c0-124eab843d9e/

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