CVE-2026-16069

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Description

The Brizy WordPress plugin before 2.8.19 does not sanitize or escape featured-image focal-point coordinates submitted through one of its AJAX actions before storing them and later echoing them into HTML attributes in the post editor's Featured Image meta box, allowing users with the Contributor role or above to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in the session of a higher-privileged user who opens the post for review.

Overview

State: PUBLISHED
Assigner (CNA): WPScan
CVSS severity: —
CVSS score: —
CVSS vector: —
Effective score: no score available from CNA, NVD, or AI yet
CWE(s): CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Reserved: 2026-07-17
Published: 2026-08-04 06:00 UTC
Last updated: 2026-08-04 14:23 UTC
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/16xxx/CVE-2026-16069.json

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Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Unknown	Brizy	`0` (affected)	—

Vendor references (1)

References embedded in the original CVE record by the assigning CNA.

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3fce478e-e240-46f4-b4a5-682eec11c7ad/ exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

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Raw JSON

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-16069.json.

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