RPB Chessboard <= 8.1.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- 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 RPB Chessboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content in all versions up to, and including, 8.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. WordPress's save-time kses sanitization does not mitigate this issue because the crafted payload uses only kses-allowed tags and attributes (such as an <a> element with title and href), and the dangerous attribute-breaking HTML is synthesized entirely at render time by the plugin's own comment_text filter.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- 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-2026-13042
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-23qv-c3w3-qc96
References
Other 8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/848b9c6d-e0db-43ad-ac6d-3674435339dd?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.2/php/abstractcontroller.php#L220
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.2/php/abstractcontroller.php#L171
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.2/php/abstractcontroller.php#L190
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.0/php/abstractcontroller.php#L220
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.0/php/abstractcontroller.php#L171
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.0/php/abstractcontroller.php#L190
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3604068%40rpb-chessboard&new=3604068%40rpb-chessboard
Sources
- CVE-2026-13042 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-13042 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-23qv-c3w3-qc96 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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