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Link Library <= 7.10.0 — Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'link_description' Parameter

CVE-2026-116537Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤7.10.0Update to 7.10.1 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High7.2
CVSS
7.2
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.4% chance in 30 days36th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Link Library link-library

  1. Affected≤ 7.10.0
  2. Patched in7.10.1

Update to 7.10.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 7.10.0. Version 7.10.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Link Library.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 7.10.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Link Library to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jacek Sowiński (dzaku).

The Link Library plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'link_description' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.10.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This exploit requires the site administrator to have enabled the non-default 'Convert [] to <> in Link Description and Notes' (use_html_tags) setting; when this option is off, the bracket-to-angle-bracket conversion never runs and the payload is never reconstructed into executable HTML.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
≤7.9.0Update to 7.10.0
CVE-2026-78396
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤7.9.0Update to 7.10.0
CVE-2026-78395
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤7.9.5Update to 7.9.6
CVE-2026-78392
High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'link_url' Parameter
≤7.9.2Update to 7.9.3
CVE-2026-15090
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤7.9.5Update to 7.9.6
CVE-2026-78393

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.2

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
EPSS
Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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