What is GHSA-w47h-mhf5-ch25?

GHSA-w47h-mhf5-ch25 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Simple Link Directory through 9.0.4 echoes embed shortcode attributes into HTML data attributes...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-w47h-mhf5-ch25 cover?

GHSA-w47h-mhf5-ch25 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-53742. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-w47h-mhf5-ch25?

GHSA-w47h-mhf5-ch25 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.4, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-w47h-mhf5-ch25MediumCVSS 5.4

Simple Link Directory through 9.0.4 echoes embed shortcode attributes into HTML data attributes...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

June 11, 2026

Last Modified

June 11, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-53742 →

📋 Description

Simple Link Directory through 9.0.4 echoes embed shortcode attributes into HTML data attributes without escaping in the embedder template. Attackers with contributor access can craft a shortcode attribute that injects an event handler executing in a viewer's browser.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53742
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-link-directory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/simple-link-directory-through-stored-xss-via-embed-shortcode-attributes
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w47h-mhf5-ch25