CVE-2026-18988
The Easy Accordion plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'accordionTitleTag' block attribute in versions up to, and including, 3.1.8. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the accordion_header_renderer() function, which emits the attacker-supplied tag name using esc_attr() in an HTML tag-name context instead of tag_escape(). 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.
Published:Aug 8, 2026
Last Modified:Aug 12, 2026
EPS:Aug 8, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00266
CVSS Score:6.4
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Shapedplugin
Product
Easy Accordion – Ai-powered Faq & Accordion Blocks, Product Faq
Shapedplugin
Easy Accordion – Ai-powered Faq & Accordion Blocks, Product Faq
Vendor
Wordpress
Product
Wordpress
Wordpress
Wordpress
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
References
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
