CVE-2020-8498: Gistpress Project Gistpress

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

XSS exists in the shortcode functionality of the GistPress plugin before 3.0.2 for WordPress via the includes/class-gistpress.php id parameter. This allows an attacker with the WordPress Contributor role to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with the privileges of other users (e.g., ones who have the publish_posts capability).

Affected products

• Gistpress Project Gistpress: before 3.0.2 (fixed in 3.0.2)

Published 2020-01-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.