{"id":79586,"date":"2026-06-11T00:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-53742-simple-link-directory-through-9-0-4-stored-xss-via-embed-shortcode-attributes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:39:46","slug":"cve-2026-53742-simple-link-directory-through-9-0-4-stored-xss-via-embed-shortcode-attributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-53742-simple-link-directory-through-9-0-4-stored-xss-via-embed-shortcode-attributes\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-53742 &#8211; Simple Link Directory through 9.0.4 Stored XSS via Embed Shortcode Attributes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-53742<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 10, 2026, 8:39 p.m. | 38\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Simple Link Directory through 9.0.4 echoes embed shortcode attributes into HTML data attributes without escaping in the embedder template. Attackers with contributor access can craft a shortcode attribute that injects an event handler executing in a viewer&#8217;s browser.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 5.4 | 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-2026-53742 Published : June 10, 2026, 8:39 p.m. | 38\u00a0minutes ago Description :Simple Link Directory through 9.0.4 echoes embed shortcode attributes into HTML data attributes without escaping in the embedder template. Attackers with contributor access can craft a shortcode attribute that injects an event handler executing in a viewer&#8217;s browser. Severity: 5.4 | &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-79586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79586","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=79586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}