CVE-2026-13042
The RPB Chessboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content in all versions up to, and including, 8.1.2 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. WordPress's save-time kses sanitization does not mitigate this issue because the crafted payload uses only kses-allowed tags and attributes (such as an <a> element with title and href), and the dangerous attribute-breaking HTML is synthesized entirely at render time by the plugin's own comment_text filter.
Published:Jul 16, 2026
Last Modified:Jul 23, 2026
EPS:Jul 16, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00247
CVSS Score:7.2
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Wordpress
Product
Wordpress
Wordpress
Wordpress
Vendor
Yo35
Product
Rpb Chessboard
Yo35
Rpb Chessboard
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.0/php/abstractcontroller.php#L171
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.0/php/abstractcontroller.php#L190
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.0/php/abstractcontroller.php#L220
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.2/php/abstractcontroller.php#L171
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rpb-chessboard/tags/8.1.2/php/abstractcontroller.php#L190
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
