CVE-2026-3369
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via uploaded image title in versions up to, and including, 1.7.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe Better Find and Replace WordPress plugin fails to properly sanitize and escape image titles during upload, allowing authenticated users with author-level access or higher to inject malicious JavaScript that executes in the browsers of users viewing affected pages.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify the plugin is installedNavigate to WordPress admin > Plugins and locate 'Better Find and Replace' in the list of installed pluginsAffected if The plugin is installed and active
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Check the plugin versionIn the Plugins list, click on 'Better Find and Replace' to view the plugin details and note the installed version numberAffected if The installed version is 1.7.9 or lower
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Confirm author-level or higher users existGo to Users > All Users in the WordPress admin and check if any users have the role of Author, Editor, or AdministratorAffected if At least one user with Author role or higher exists in the system
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Inspect media library for custom image titlesGo to Media > Library, view uploaded images, and check the 'Title' field for each image to see if any contain custom titles (as opposed to default auto-generated filenames)Affected if Images with custom titles are present in the media library and those titles are displayed on pages viewable by other users
The environment is affected if the Better Find and Replace plugin version is 1.7.9 or lower, the plugin is active, author-level users exist, and images with custom titles are stored in the media library.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate the plugin to a version newer than 1.7.9 once available, or implement proper input sanitization (sanitize_text_field) and output escaping (esc_html/esc_attr) on image title fields.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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