PT-2026-36955 · WordPress · Wp-Clippy

Zakaria · Published 2026-05-05 · Updated 2026-05-21 · CVE-2026-5505

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WP-Clippy versions prior to 1.0.1

Description The WP-Clippy plugin for WordPress contains a stored cross-site scripting issue. This occurs because of insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the clippy shortcode. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which then execute when a user visits the affected page.

Recommendations Update to a version later than 1.0.0.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-5505

Affected Products

Wp-Clippy

References · 11

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5505 · Security Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/52697 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-clippy/tags/1.0.0/wp-clippy.php#L23 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/2051603321702560059 · Twitter Post
• https://reddit.com/r/StopBadBots/comments/1tjv1es/critical_warning_62_plugins_2_themes_11_still · Reddit Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEarity/status/2051587205546787010 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec49ed83-a09d-460d-be34-0fb79032b543?source=cve · Note
• https://reddit.com/r/StopBadBots/comments/1td9gea/critical_warning_these_14_wordpress_plugins · Reddit Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-clippy/trunk/wp-clippy.php#L26 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-clippy/trunk/wp-clippy.php#L23 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-clippy/tags/1.0.0/wp-clippy.php#L26 · Note