CVE-2026-75528

The Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author URL / Link Log in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.13 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires an administrator to perform the plugin's standard dismiss-and-recheck workflow on a link submitted by the attacker via the WordPress comment author URL field, after which the attacker's HTTP server issues a redirect to a URL containing an HTML/JavaScript payload that is stored verbatim in the link log.
References
Link Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/includes/admin/table-printer.php#L658
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/includes/links.php#L485
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/modules/checkers/http.php#L291
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/modules/checkers/http.php#L432
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13/legacy/modules/containers/comment.php#L228
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/includes/admin/table-printer.php#L658
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/includes/links.php#L485
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/modules/checkers/http.php#L291
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/modules/checkers/http.php#L432
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.8/legacy/modules/containers/comment.php#L228
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fbroken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13&new_path=%2Fbroken-link-checker/tags/2.4.13.1
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3662785%40broken-link-checker%2Ftags%2F2.4.13.1&old=3644192%40broken-link-checker%2Ftags%2F2.4.13
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec96308f-3944-48c5-94be-b1555c0830b7?source=cve
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Information

Published : 2026-09-02 08:16

Updated : 2026-09-02 13:55


NVD link : CVE-2026-75528

Mitre link : CVE-2026-75528

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-75528


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CWE
CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')