PT-2026-2845 · WordPress · Short Link

Bhumividh Treloges · Published 2026-01-14 · Updated 2026-01-14 · CVE-2026-0813

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Short Link plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.1

Description The Short Link plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping related to the short link post title and short link page title parameters. Authenticated attackers with administrator-level access or higher can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the affected page.

Recommendations Update the Short Link plugin to version 1.1 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-0813

Affected Products

Short Link

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0813 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-link/tags/1.0/short-link.php#L118 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2011382975502442635 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/2011352102581190992 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/short-link/trunk/short-link.php#L118 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8623d2cc-dcdd-4453-9a86-669bdd44eae1?source=cve · Note