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CVE-2026-8845: Islamic Database <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Islamic Database plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'islamicDB-roqya' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied 'width' and 'height' shortcode attributes within the islamicDB_sc_quran_qari_roqya() function, which are concatenated directly into HTML iframe attribute values. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• samiullah-kaifi Islamic Database: through 1.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/islamic-database/trunk/islamic_database.php#L561
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/islamic-database/trunk/islamic_database.php#L567
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/98c3762b-9dcd-4931-846e-3f54fe2bf5e2?source=cve

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