CVE-2026-8857

HIGHNVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-07-01. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 2.1%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: 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 description, written by its CNA (The Wikimedia Foundation), states the affected versions: "This issue affects timeline: from * before 1.46.0, 1.45.4, 1.44.6, 1.43.9." No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

A vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation timeline.

This vulnerability is associated with program files scripts/EasyTimeline.Pl, includes/Timeline.Php.

This issue affects timeline: from * before 1.46.0, 1.45.4, 1.44.6, 1.43.9.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100

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)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation2.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (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, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
2.1%
EPSS %ILE
81st
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 (8.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
2.1% 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 every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade 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 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). 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)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (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 1, 2026

Last Modified

July 9, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Jul 9, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

⚓ T426631 CVE-2026-8857: Full RCE using EasyTimeline Extension

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T426631

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-8857(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 / 37× 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 99 of 250 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. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 151 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-20 09:07 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-20 09:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  3. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  4. 2026-10-18 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  5. 2026-10-18 03:03 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
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  10. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  11. 2026-10-13 05:02 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-13 05:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  13. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  14. 2026-10-12 14:49 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-11 19:15 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-11 16:32 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-11 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  18. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  20. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
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  1. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  2. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
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  7. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
  8. 2026-09-23 06:52 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-23 06:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  10. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
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  13. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
  14. 2026-09-18 06:33 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-18 06:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  16. 2026-09-17 19:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
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  20. 2026-09-14 00:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  21. 2026-09-13 09:08 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-13 09:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  23. 2026-09-12 15:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
  24. 2026-09-12 14:44 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-12 14:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  26. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
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  29. 2026-09-06 14:27 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-09-06 14:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  31. 2026-09-06 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
  32. 2026-09-06 02:21 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-06 02:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  34. 2026-09-05 15:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
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  39. 2026-08-30 23:35 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-08-30 23:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  41. 2026-08-30 19:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
  42. 2026-08-30 11:46 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-08-30 11:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  44. 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
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  46. 2026-08-27 22:26 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-08-27 22:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  48. 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
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  50. 2026-08-25 16:21 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-08-25 16:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  52. 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
  53. 2026-08-24 22:56 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-08-24 22:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  55. 2026-08-24 14:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
  56. 2026-08-24 10:52 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-08-24 10:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  58. 2026-08-23 19:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  59. 2026-08-23 07:48 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-08-23 07:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  61. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 71st percentile
  62. 2026-08-22 19:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  63. 2026-08-22 07:10 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-08-22 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  65. 2026-08-21 23:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 71st percentile
  66. 2026-08-21 17:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  67. 2026-08-21 04:44 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-08-21 04:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  69. 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 71st percentile
  70. 2026-08-20 16:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  71. 2026-08-20 04:41 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-08-20 04:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  73. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 71st percentile
  74. 2026-08-19 09:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-q6xp-j96f-7vmp · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 8.8

Public detection templates

(1 reference)

A public Nuclei detection template is referenced for this CVE. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code.

  • Nucleihttp/cves/2026/CVE-2026-8857.yaml
    Published Aug 13, 2026

    MediaWiki EasyTimeline - Code Injection RCE

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-8857?
CVE-2026-8857 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 1, 2026. A vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation timeline. This vulnerability is associated with program files scripts/EasyTimeline.Pl, includes/Timeline.Php. This issue affects timeline: from * before 1.46.0, 1.45.4, 1.44.6, 1.43.9.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-8857 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-8857 was published on July 1, 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 9, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-8857 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-8857 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (81st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-8857?
CVE-2026-8857 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-8857?
No fix for CVE-2026-8857 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 description, written by its CNA (The Wikimedia Foundation), states the affected versions: "This issue affects timeline: from * before 1.46.0, 1.45.4, 1.44.6, 1.43.9." No release containing a fix is confirmed on record. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-8857 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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