KeepInMind - Dashboard Notes <= 0.8.5 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Severity and exploitation
KEV coverage does not rule out exploitation.
Assessment vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HAssessment vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:LSeverity
medium6.8CVSS measures technical severity, not the likelihood of an attack.
Known exploitation
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Public exploit
Exploit reference published
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Remediation
Fix status not established
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What this means
The KeepInMind Dashboard Notes WordPress plugin through 0.8.5 has a stored XSS vulnerability, allowing low-privileged users to store malicious CSS via the REST API. This can lead to credential phishing and denial of service. The fix in 0.8.4.2 only addressed the editor interface.
Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.Attack conditions
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Unknown · WPScan
KeepInMind Dashboard Notes
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Unknown · WPScan
KeepInMind Dashboard Notes
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affected
0 → through 0.8.5
semver versions
Other versions: unknown
What to do
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Public exploit evidence
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wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5d549b7-17c8-417d-a86a-a7ae356a6eab/ ↗Attributed to WPScanwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/52614 ↗Attributed to Exploit-DBOriginal source description
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The KeepInMind Dashboard Notes WordPress plugin through 0.8.5 does not properly sanitize note content submitted through its REST API, allowing users with a low-privileged role (such as Contributor, where an administrator has enabled it) to store CSS that redresses the administrator dashboard for credential phishing and denial of service; the fix released in 0.8.4.2 addressed only the editor interface and left the REST write path exploitable.
References
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Evidence available
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Original records
CVE-2026-9271View the latest unmodified CVE JSON from the official source. It may be newer than this imported page.
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