CVE-2026-16260
🔶 mediumSummary
The Post Grid, Slider & Carousel Ultimate WordPress plugin before 1.8.1 does not sanitise and escape one of its custom post type settings before outputting it in an HTML attribute on the admin edit screen, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject JavaScript that executes in the session of any administrator who opens the affected item.
CVSS Score
6.8
Medium
EPSS Score
0.2
Exploit Probability
Published Date
2026-08-22
First Seen: 2026-08-23
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence
This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 47.8% of all 348,756 vulnerabilities in our database.
#182,004
Below average severity
Severity Percentile
🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Aug 23, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
None
No known exploits
⚙️ Automatable
NO
Requires human interaction
💥 Technical Impact
Partial
Limited system impact
🏆 Discovered By
Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara
WPScan (coordinator)
SSVC data provided by
CISA
Last Modified
2026-08-23
Source
NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE IDs (Weakness Types)