Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Jun 17, 2026· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2026-8607
CVE-2026-8607
Description
The Points Management System For Gamification, Ranks, Badges, and Loyalty Rewards Program – myCred plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wrap' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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
8- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mycred/tags/3.0.2/includes/classes/class.query-leaderboard.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mycred/tags/3.0.2/includes/shortcodes/mycred_leaderboard.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mycred/tags/3.0.6/includes/classes/class.query-leaderboard.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mycred/tags/3.0.6/includes/shortcodes/mycred_leaderboard.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mycred/tags/3.1.1/includes/classes/class.query-leaderboard.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mycred/tags/3.1.1/includes/mycred-functions.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3572451nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/041a7c9a-d7dc-4742-b879-f1836f324a46nvd
News mentions
1- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 15, 2026 to June 21, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Jun 25, 2026