CVE-2026-16758: Aliakro Snippet Shortcodes

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Snippet Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Aliakro Snippet Shortcodes: up to and including 5.2.0

Published 2026-08-16. Last modified 2026-08-20.