high
CVE-2026-64638
XSS2Shell: WordPress core pre-auth reflected XSS on wp-login.php via a strip_tags()/KSES parser differential
- Severity
- high
- Affected product
- WordPress
- Technology guide
- WordPress security testing
- Affected versions
- WordPress ≥ 7.0, < 7.0.3
- Fixed in
- WordPress 7.0.3
- Detection basis
- Component version range
- Shipped rule
- WordPress: XSS2Shell: WordPress core pre-auth reflected XSS on wp-login.php via a strip_tags()/KSES parser differential
- Added to NewScan
- 2026-08-08
- Detected by
- NewScan — free, self-hosted
How NewScan reports it
COMPONENT VERSION RANGE
NewScan fingerprints WordPress from its response and reports this CVE when the detected version falls inside the affected range below.
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