Medium severity4.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 10, 2026· Updated Aug 26, 2026
CVE-2026-13701
CVE-2026-13701
Description
The Advanced Excerpt WordPress plugin before 4.5 does not sanitise and escape one of its settings before outputting it on the front end of the site, which could allow administrators (including those without the unfiltered_html capability, such as on multisite) to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that execute in the context of any visitor viewing affected pages.
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Affected products
1- Range: <4.5
Patches
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References
1News mentions
1- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 3, 2026 to August 9, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Aug 14, 2026