CVE-2026-5714: Enable Media Replace <= 4.1.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'location_dir' Parameter

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-06-09 · updated 2026-07-23
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Enable Media Replace plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘location_dir’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

shortpixel Enable Media Replace: through 4.1.8

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/enable-media-replace/tags/4.1.8/classes/ViewController/UploadViewController.php#L108
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/enable-media-replace/tags/4.1.8/views/screen.php#L228
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c6e8a78b-01ad-47b2-84e6-4f6ff78c02b6?source=cve

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