{"id":78912,"date":"2026-05-27T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8042-github-shortcode\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:16:45","slug":"cve-2026-8042-github-shortcode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8042-github-shortcode\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-8042 &#8211; Github Shortcode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8042<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 27, 2026, 8:16 a.m. | 15\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :The Github Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the &#8216;repo&#8217; shortcode attribute in the &#8216;github&#8217; shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 6.4 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8042 Published : May 27, 2026, 8:16 a.m. | 15\u00a0minutes ago Description :The Github Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the &#8216;repo&#8217; shortcode attribute in the &#8216;github&#8217; shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}