CVE-2026-7543

HIGHPre-NVD 7.27.2
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-16. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.2; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 7.2Exploit: 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 CVE record's CNA (Wordfence) lists Breakdance versions up to and including 2.7.1 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

The Breakdance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fields' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.7.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS v3
7.2
EG Score
7.2HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
48
EG Risk 48/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity72% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.2 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.3% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
23rd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.2): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.2 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.2 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-19). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 16, 2026

Last Modified

July 17, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Jul 16, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

Breakdance 2.7.2 - Security Update | Breakdance

https://breakdance.com/breakdance-2-7-2-security-update/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-7543(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 10× in last 7d / 47× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 96 of 234 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 4 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 138 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-20 08:21 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-20 08:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  3. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
  4. 2026-10-18 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
  5. 2026-10-18 03:13 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
  7. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
  8. 2026-10-15 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
  9. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
  10. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  11. 2026-10-13 07:20 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-13 07:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  13. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  14. 2026-10-12 15:39 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-11 19:25 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-11 16:40 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-11 13:59 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  19. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  20. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
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  22. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
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  24. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  25. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
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  1. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  2. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  3. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  4. 2026-10-01 11:30 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-01 11:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  6. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  7. 2026-09-29 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  8. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  9. 2026-09-28 08:38 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-28 08:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  11. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  12. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
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  14. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  15. 2026-09-24 08:37 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-24 08:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  17. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  18. 2026-09-23 03:08 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-23 03:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  20. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
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  23. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  24. 2026-09-18 04:40 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-18 04:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  26. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  27. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  28. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  29. 2026-09-14 11:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  30. 2026-09-13 23:10 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-09-13 23:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  32. 2026-09-13 07:10 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-13 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  34. 2026-09-12 12:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  35. 2026-09-11 21:42 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-09-11 21:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  37. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  38. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  39. 2026-09-08 00:35 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-09-08 00:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  41. 2026-09-06 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  42. 2026-09-06 13:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  43. 2026-09-05 20:41 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-09-05 20:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  45. 2026-09-04 05:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
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  49. 2026-08-31 04:33 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-08-31 04:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  51. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  52. 2026-08-30 15:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  53. 2026-08-30 03:38 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-08-30 03:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  55. 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  56. 2026-08-28 21:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  57. 2026-08-28 03:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  58. 2026-08-27 15:17 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-08-27 15:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  60. 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  61. 2026-08-27 02:27 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-08-27 02:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  63. 2026-08-26 14:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  64. 2026-08-26 14:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  65. 2026-08-26 02:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  66. 2026-08-25 13:53 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-08-25 13:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  68. 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  69. 2026-08-25 01:41 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-08-25 01:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7xfg-8mc3-f3f7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  71. 2026-08-24 14:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-7543?
CVE-2026-7543 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 16, 2026. The Breakdance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fields' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.7.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-7543 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-7543 was published on July 16, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-7543 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-7543 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (23rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-7543?
CVE-2026-7543 has a CVSS base score of 7.2 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-7543?
No fix for CVE-2026-7543 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 CVE record's CNA (Wordfence) lists Breakdance versions up to and including 2.7.1 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-7543 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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