The Header Footer Script Adder – Insert Code in Header, Body & Footer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'asm_code' Snippet Meta in all versions up to, and including, 2.1 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.
CVE-2026-15394
Score 6.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-23. 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(medium)
- EG Risk
- 29(Track)EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity64% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 26%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 23, 2026
Last Modified
July 23, 2026
References (5)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-and-footer-script-adder/tags/2.1/pro/class-pro-admin.php#L400
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-and-footer-script-adder/tags/2.1/pro/class-pro-public.php#L145
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-and-footer-script-adder/tags/2.1/pro/class-pro-public.php#L253
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3611085%40header-and-footer-script-adder&new=3611085%40header-and-footer-script-adder
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c394c9bc-21f6-45ea-8eda-8ee22a9b87ba?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15394(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 77× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
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- 2026-07-23 10:15 UTCEG score recompute
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