CVE-2026-2687Disclosure

LOWCVSS 4.3 · MEDIUM

Signal is active with 2 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

The Reading progressbar WordPress plugin before 1.3.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-79

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Threat summary

  • 2 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • Technical details provided in 1 signal
  • Disclosure: 1 classified signal
  • General: 1 classified signal
  • 2 total mentions across 1 day

Deep dive

Activity timeline2 mentions / 1d
01122Mentions · 2026-03-12: 2Technical Details · 2026-03-12: 103-12
Signal classification2 categories
Disclosure
150.0%
General
150.0%
Referenced assets2 URLs
Full discourse2 posts
  • CVEarity@CVEarity
    General

    ⚡ New CVE Alert: CVE-2026-2687 🚨 Risk Level: Unknown 🧩 Affects: Wordpress Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-2687 #CVE-2026-2687 #CVE  #Wordpress #CyberSecurity #InfoSec https://t.co/1GXFukKwRV

    Post summary

    The tweet merely announces the existence of CVE‑2026‑2687 for WordPress without providing technical, exploit, or mitigation details.

    0000032
    96 followersView on X
  • CVE@CVEnew
    Disclosure

    CVE-2026-2687 The Reading progressbar WordPress plugin before 1.3.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform… https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-2687

    Post summary

    The entry discloses a WordPress plugin flaw (Reading progressbar <1.3.1) where inadequate sanitization of settings can enable high‑privilege users to exploit the system.

    0000078
    56.7K followersView on X

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