Cross-site scripting in cuamckuy Easy Prism Syntax Highlighter
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Easy Prism Syntax Highlighter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'code' (and 'c') shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.0.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied shortcode attributes in the shortcode() function, which concatenates the first positional attribute directly into the class attribute of the generated <pre>/<code> HTML without calling esc_attr() or any other escaping function. 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-8875
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pm23-26vr-fhmc
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aa690c4d-15c4-43bc-b8f7-017b7741c5cd?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-prism-syntax-highlighter/trunk/PrismSyntaxHighlither.php#L123
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-prism-syntax-highlighter/trunk/PrismSyntaxHighlither.php#L116
Sources
- CVE-2026-8875 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-8875 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pm23-26vr-fhmc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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