CVE-2026-16623

Published: Aug 4, 2026Modified: Aug 26, 2026Deferred

8.0

Vector

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

Exploitability: 1.3 / Impact: 6.0

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Description

The Create Block WordPress plugin before 2.10.0 does not correctly escape user-supplied text before writing it into a generated PHP pattern file, allowing a multisite subsite administrator (who holds the capability gating this action but is denied the capability that normally gates PHP file editing) to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code on the server.

Related CWEs

CWE-94

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.

References (1)

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/19c7fdaa-5e75-481d-884c-68fdb2fb8f8d/

Source: contact@wpscan.com

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