The PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'embed' Episode Meta Field in all versions up to, and including, 11.16.8 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. The embed value is stored via update_post_meta() rather than through WordPress core's post content pipeline, meaning kses-on-save filtering is never applied — even for Author-role users who would otherwise lack unfiltered_html — making this path unprotected by WordPress's standard role-based XSS mitigations.
CVE-2026-12098
Score 6.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-18. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.4; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.4
- EG Score
- 6.4(high)
- EPSS
- 10.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 18, 2026
Last Modified
June 18, 2026
References (8)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerpress/tags/11.16.4/powerpress.php#L420
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerpress/tags/11.16.4/powerpress.php#L659
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerpress/tags/11.16.4/powerpressadmin.php#L2984
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerpress/tags/11.16.8/powerpress.php#L420
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerpress/tags/11.16.8/powerpress.php#L659
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerpress/tags/11.16.8/powerpressadmin.php#L2984
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3575897%40powerpress&new=3575897%40powerpress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a74e4fb-15a9-4fc9-afa6-396b0f026615?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-12098(1)
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Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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- 2026-06-18 09:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-18 09:51 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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