CVE-2026-5116

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.44.4—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 4.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-05. A secondary CVSS source baseline 4.4; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
4.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 4.4Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.5. This is due to insufficient output escaping on form shortcode keys displayed in the admin "Scan Forms for Post Meta and User Data Keys" page. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when an Administrator runs the scan feature.

CVSS v3
4.4
EG Score
4.4MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
20
EG Risk 20/100CISA SSVC

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 computed
Severity44% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
21st
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 5, 2026

Last Modified

August 12, 2026

References (4)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-5116(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 / 66× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 156 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-04 06:05 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-04 06:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
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  7. 2026-10-02 10:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  10. 2026-10-01 02:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  20. 2026-09-25 04:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-23 00:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  18. 2026-09-16 03:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  28. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
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  30. 2026-09-11 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-09-10 09:35 UTCEPSS rescore
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  33. 2026-09-09 06:28 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-09-09 06:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  37. 2026-09-07 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  41. 2026-09-06 06:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  51. 2026-09-01 22:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-09-01 13:54 UTCEPSS rescore
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  54. 2026-08-31 22:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  56. 2026-08-30 19:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
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  60. 2026-08-29 21:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  72. 2026-08-25 00:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  75. 2026-08-23 03:43 UTCGHSA enrichment

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-5116?
CVE-2026-5116 is a medium vulnerability published on August 5, 2026. The Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.5. This is due to insufficient output escaping on form shortcode keys displayed in the admin "Scan Forms for Post Meta and User Data Keys" page.…
When was CVE-2026-5116 disclosed?
CVE-2026-5116 was first published on August 5, 2026, with the most recent update on August 12, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-5116 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-5116 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (21st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-5116?
CVE-2026-5116 has a CVSS base score of 4.4 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-5116?
No fix for CVE-2026-5116 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-5116 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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