Medium severity · published Sep 1, 2026
CVE-2026-75980
BetterDocs <= 4.8.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Heading 'id' Attribute in Post Content
6.4
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, Docs, Wikis, FAQ with Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Heading 'id' Attribute in Post Content in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. The exploit survives wp_kses_post because entity-encoded quotes in a heading id attribute are treated as a single legitimate attribute value at save time; the dangerous payload only materialises after process_content_for_toc() calls html_entity_decode() on the stored content and the broken id is extracted by a lazy regex before being echoed unescaped into the Table of Contents output.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BA
BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, MCP Server, Docs, Wikis, FAQ & Chatbot · wpdevteam
through 4.8.1 · source: vendor
Affected product
BA
BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, MCP Server, Docs, Wikis, FAQ & Chatbot
wpdevteam
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75980
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-75980
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betterdocs/tags/4.8.1/includes/Shortcodes/ToC.php#L147
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betterdocs/tags/4.8.1/includes/Shortcodes/ToC.php#L75
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betterdocs/tags/4.8.1/includes/Utils/Node.php#L22
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betterdocs/tags/4.8.1/views/shortcodes/toc.php#L50
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3656697%40betterdocs&new=3656697%40betterdocs
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d1305df9-5002-4352-875c-2dcba7b06c10?source=cve
