The Betheme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the theme's 'icon_box_2' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 28.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00349.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
MuffinGroup Betheme unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 28.4

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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/tags/28.3.3/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11651 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/tags/28.3.3/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11719 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/tags/28.3.3/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11840 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/trunk/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11651 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/trunk/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11719 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/betheme/trunk/functions/theme-shortcodes.php#L11840 cve-icon
https://support.muffingroup.com/changelog/ cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/686dd63b-5471-4654-8009-e3ab648f8b86?source=cve cve-icon
History

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:15:00 +0000

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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

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Description The Betheme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the theme's 'icon_box_2' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 28.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Title Betheme <= 28.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'icon_box_2' Shortcode
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-26T07:42:00.865Z

Reserved: 2026-04-13T02:17:54.899Z

Link: CVE-2026-6178

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Updated: 2026-08-26T11:00:05Z

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