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CVE-2026-75980: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in wpdevteam BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, MCP Server, Docs, Wikis, FAQ & Chatbot

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-75980cvecve-2026-75980cwe-79
Published: 09/01/2026 (09/01/2026, 05:30:41 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: wpdevteam
Product: BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, MCP Server, Docs, Wikis, FAQ & Chatbot

Description

The BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, Docs, Wikis, FAQ with Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Heading 'id' Attribute in Post Content in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. The exploit survives wp_kses_post because entity-encoded quotes in a heading id attribute are treated as a single legitimate attribute value at save time; the dangerous payload only materialises after process_content_for_toc() calls html_entity_decode() on the stored content and the broken id is extracted by a lazy regex before being echoed unescaped into the Table of Contents output.

CVSS v3.1

Score 6.4medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
Wordfence
Date Reserved
2026-08-18T18:21:26.796Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a9664a9acd9273b494509b3

Added to database: 09/01/2026, 05:37:45 UTC

Last updated: 09/01/2026, 05:37:45 UTC

Views: 1

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