CVE-2026-96578

What it is

The GSpeech TTS – WordPress Text To Speech Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content in all versions up to, and including, 3.22.0 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. This mXSS-style transform bypasses WordPress comment kses sanitization because the payload is stored using only kses-allowed tags and attributes; the malicious event handlers and style fragments become active only when the plugin's output-buffer callback rewrites the rendered HTML at request time.

At a glance

Exploitability

Can be exploited over the network without logging in. Limited direct impact.

Exploit odds

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).

Fix

No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.

Timeline

1. 2026-09-23 13:36 UTC ReservedThe CVE id was reserved by its CNA
2. 2026-10-02 08:17 UTC PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
3. 2026-10-02 18:17 UTC Last updatedMost recent change to the record

Why it ranks here

• Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
• Exploit odds: 0.2% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
• Severity: 7.2 HIGH (CVSS).
• Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.

Details

Published

2026-10-02 08:17 UTC

Last modified

2026-10-02 18:17 UTC

Exploit probability

0.2% · EPSS, next 30 days

Weakness

CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting

Record status

Deferred

Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 7.2

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges needed

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

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