CVE-2026-16293

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Description

The PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry WordPress plugin before 11.16.11 does not sanitise and escape some of its Podcast Episode settings, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

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: 2026-07-20
Published: 2026-08-04 06:00 UTC
Last updated: 2026-08-04 14:18 UTC
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/16xxx/CVE-2026-16293.json

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Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Unknown	PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry	`0` (affected)	—

Vendor references (1)

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

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/04aa5ba8-2654-4e71-90af-83cfd92635f8/ exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

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Raw JSON

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-16293.json.

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