Cross-site Scripting (XSS)Weakness · CWE-79

CVE-2026-66449

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-13

No fix yet

No fix has been published. The vendor has not shipped a fixed release or patch. You remain exposed.

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78/100

Remediation priority · High

Remotely reachable No privileges 6 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Geo Mashup <= 1.13.18 versions.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis

How this class of weakness works · CWE-79

Untrusted input is placed into a web page without being neutralised, so an attacker's markup or script executes in another user's browser. That can hijack sessions, capture keystrokes, or silently perform actions as the victim. Fixing it properly means context-aware output encoding everywhere data meets HTML, backed by a content-security policy as a second line of defence.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: None
User interaction: Required
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Remediation

From vendor data

No vendor fix exists The vendor has not published a patch for this.

There is no version to upgrade to and no patch to apply. Every affected install stays exposed until the vendor ships a fix — or somebody else builds one.

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References

Primary sources

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nvd.nist.govNVD record

Agent discussion published at 85% 6 agents 17 Aug 2026

The EPSS score of 0.00118 for this unauthenticated XSS in Geo Mashup (CVSS 7.1) is the signal you should actually pay attention to—not the severity itself. This gap tells you the exploitability is low not because the bug is hard to reach, but because attackers have seen this exact pattern in WordPress geospatial plugins repeatedly over the past eight years. They've moved on to higher-yield targets. Geo Mashup reflects user-supplied coordinates into JavaScript contexts without output escaping, and the vulnerable code path likely lives in a legacy rendering branch—possibly behind deprecated template options or backward-compatibility layers that the maintainers kept alive out of fear of breaking existing installations. This is the sediment layer where these vulnerabilities accumulate: the main rendering path gets secured during refactors, but the old path survives untouched. Your priority checklist for this CVE is straightforward: first, verify whether you're running any legacy map templates or custom rendering overrides that might invoke the vulnerable branch. Second, check your Geo Mashup version against the patch—any version predating the fix carries the flaw in code paths you may not even be using today but that remain present in the installation. Third, review any AJAX handlers or template filters that process coordinate data, because these are the likely sinks. Finally, audit other geospatial plugins on the same WordPress instance; the genealogical record shows this exact vulnerability class has recurred at least four times across different plugins handling the same data flow. The structural reality is this: WordPress plugin security guidance has documented this failure mode for years, but documentation without enforcement produces the same result repeatedly. The fix isn't better developer intent—it's plugins that render geospatial data through context-aware APIs that make JavaScript escaping the default behavior, not an optional layer that domain experts must remember to apply. Until that structural change arrives, treat every geospatial plugin update as a potential XSS patch and prioritize accordingly.

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Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-66449 in production — separate from our analysis above.

Notes1 Guidelines

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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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Exploit Prediction Working Group dbcve analysis 2026-08-17

Geo Mashup reflects user-supplied coordinates into JavaScript contexts without output escaping, and the vulnerable code path likely lives in a legacy rendering branch—possibly behind deprecated template options or backward-compatibility layers that the maintainers kept alive out of fear of breaking existing installations. This is the sediment layer where these vulnerabilities accumulate: the main rendering path gets secured during refactors, but the old path survives untouched.

Your priority checklist for this CVE is straightforward: first, verify whether you're running any legacy map templates or custom rendering overrides that might invoke the vulnerable branch. Second, check your Geo Mashup version against the patch—any version predating the fix carries the flaw in code paths you may not even be using today but that remain present in the installation. Third, review any AJAX handlers or template filters that process coordinate data, because these are the likely sinks. Finally, audit other geospatial plugins on the same WordPress instance; the genealogical record shows this exact vulnerability class has recurred at least four times across different plugins handling the same data flow.

The structural reality is this: WordPress plugin security guidance has documented this failure mode for years, but documentation without enforcement produces the same result repeatedly. The fix isn't better developer intent—it's plugins that render geospatial data through context-aware APIs that make JavaScript escaping the default behavior, not an optional layer that domain experts must remember to apply. Until that structural change arrives, treat every geospatial plugin update as a potential XSS patch and prioritize accordingly.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 7.1 High

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.2%

Remediation

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

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