Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published May 5, 2026· Updated May 5, 2026
CVE-2026-5505
CVE-2026-5505
Description
The WP-Clippy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's clippy shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
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References
5- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-clippy/tags/1.0.0/wp-clippy.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-clippy/tags/1.0.0/wp-clippy.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-clippy/trunk/wp-clippy.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-clippy/trunk/wp-clippy.phpnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec49ed83-a09d-460d-be34-0fb79032b543nvd
News mentions
2- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 11, 2026 to May 17, 2026)Wordfence Blog · May 21, 2026
- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 4, 2026 to May 10, 2026)Wordfence Blog · May 14, 2026