CVE-2026-85001: Unknown Embedpress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The EmbedPress WordPress plugin before 4.6.7 does not sanitise and escape one of its Elementor widget settings before outputting it into an HTML attribute, which could allow users with the Contributor role or above to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when the affected content is viewed.

Affected products

• Unknown Embedpress: from 4.4.9, before 4.6.7 (fixed in 4.6.7)

Published 2026-09-30. Last modified 2026-09-30.