The Frontend File Manager Plugin WordPress plugin through 23.6 does not sanitise nor escape a filename submitted to the frontend file-rename endpoint before storing it as post meta and rendering it back on the admin File Manager listing, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability exploitable by users with Subscriber-level access and above against an administrator viewing the file management interface.
CVE-2026-8378
Score 5.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-23. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 5.4; 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
- 5.4
- EG Score
- 5.4(high)
- EPSS
- 3.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 23, 2026
Last Modified
June 23, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jun 23, 2026Frontend File Manager Plugin <= 23.6 – Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via File Rename | CVE 2026-8378 | Plugin Vulnerabilities
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/19f5dd94-b16c-4ad2-9586-d15ddecf9805/Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-8378(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 43× 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.
- 2026-07-07 01:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-07 01:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 00:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 00:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 02:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 22:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 22:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-03 21:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 21:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 20:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 20:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 18:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 18:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 15:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 17:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 17:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 16:08 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-06-29 16:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 14:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-28 14:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-27 13:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-27 13:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-26 12:07 UTCEG score recompute▲ 5.40
- 2026-06-26 12:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-25 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-24 14:05 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-23 21:33 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-23 12:40 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 5.4 · severity → MEDIUM
- 2026-06-23 07:33 UTCNVD update
- 2026-06-23 06:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-23 06:40 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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