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CVE-2026-10513: Webmention <= 5.8.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via MF2 'photo'/'url' Author Properties

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-30 · updated 2026-07-01
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Webmention plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 5.8.0 via parser-derived 'avatar' and 'url' author metadata. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied MF2 author properties processed by the unauthenticated webmention REST endpoint and rendered directly into HTML 'value' attributes by the edit-comment-form template without esc_attr() or esc_url(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a privileged user (moderator or administrator) opens the affected comment edit screen.

Affected products

• pfefferle Webmention: through 5.8.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webmention/tags/5.7.0/includes/handler/class-mf2.php#L129
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/webmention/tags/5.7.0/templates/edit-comment-form.php#L15
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3583033/webmention
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5a4e144a-3c84-4da3-8fa6-e5fe9c897efe?source=cve

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