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CVE-2026-6178
Betheme <= 28.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'icon_box_2' Shortcode
Medium6.4EPSS 0.36%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Betheme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the theme's 'icon_box_2' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 28.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 28.4
References (8)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/686dd63b-5471-4654-8009-e3ab648f8b86?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/trunk/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11719 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/tags/28.3.3/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11719 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/trunk/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11651 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/tags/28.3.3/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11651 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/trunk/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11840 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/tags/28.3.3/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11840 (opens in a new tab)
- https://support.muffingroup.com/changelog/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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