CVE-2026-53742

FAUCET Score

Simple Link Directory through 9.0.4 echoes embed shortcode attributes into HTML data attributes without escaping in the embedder template. Attackers with contributor access can craft a shortcode attribute that injects an event handler executing in a viewer's browser.

First published: Jun 10, 2026Last modified: Jun 10, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 0, <= 9.0.4CPE match	cpe:2.3:a:quantumcloud:simple_link_directory::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

5.1MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Attack Requirements

NONE

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

PASSIVE

VS Confidentiality

NONE

VS Integrity

NONE

VS Availability

NONE

SS Confidentiality

LOW

SS Integrity

LOW

SS Availability

NONE

Exploit Maturity

NOT_DEFINED

CvssVersion

4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.14%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

3.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0014 is in the 1st percentile among its peer group of 15,225 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

wordpress.org / plugins/simple-link-directory

vulncheck.com / advisories/simple-link-directory-through-stored-xss-via-embed-shortcode-attributes