CVE-2026-17532

Seraphinite Accelerator <= 2.29.18 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

MEDIUM
6.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 5, 2026 at 06:37 AM UTC
Updated: August 12, 2026 at 09:15 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSeraphinite Accelerator

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Severity
MEDIUM6.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The Seraphinite Accelerator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'seraph_accel_prep' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.29.15. This is due to the CacheExtractPreparePageParams() function using PHP's loose inequality operator (!=) to compare the expected HMAC string against the JSON-decoded 'nonce' value — supplying the JSON boolean true causes any non-empty HMAC string to compare as loosely equal, bypassing the signature check — combined with insufficient output escaping in the _CbContentFinishSkip() function, which concatenates the attacker-controlled 'selfTest' field directly into the HTML response body. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a specially crafted link.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 2.29.18

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

6.1MEDIUMWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-79

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