Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting Plugin up to 11.15.15 on WordPress Shortcode powerpress/podcast cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting Plugin up to 11.15.15 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is the function powerpress/podcast of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-2988. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting Plugin up to 11.15.15 on WordPress. Affected is the function powerpress/podcast of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

The Blubrry PowerPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'powerpress' and 'podcast' shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 11.15.15 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.

The weakness was presented by Muhammad Yudha. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-2988 since 02/22/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• Blubrry

Name

• PowerPress Podcasting Plugin

Version

• 11.15.0
• 11.15.1
• 11.15.2
• 11.15.3
• 11.15.4
• 11.15.5
• 11.15.6
• 11.15.7
• 11.15.8
• 11.15.9
• 11.15.10
• 11.15.11
• 11.15.12
• 11.15.13
• 11.15.14
• 11.15.15

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