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CVE-2026-8790: Football Pool (WordPress plugin) · Cross-site Scripting

Affects Football Pool (WordPress plugin)Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.1 Medium.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026, 10:58 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
6.1Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 32% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 5 Aug 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 3 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
antoinehFootball PoolAffected
  • <=2.13.4
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Until a patch is available, users should consider disabling the Shoutbox widget or restricting access to trusted users only. Additionally, monitoring for suspicious POST requests targeting the 'shouttext' parameter may help detect exploitation attempts.

Description

The Football Pool plugin for WordPress contains a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Shoutbox widget. This occurs via the 'shouttext' POST parameter in all versions up to and including 2.13.4. The vulnerability arises because raw POST data is echoed back into a textarea element without proper HTML escaping when certain conditions fail, such as nonce check failure or empty input. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the browsers of authenticated users with Subscriber-level or higher privileges who submit crafted POST requests.

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