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WP Dark Mode – Improve Accessibility with AI Powered Dark Theme <= 5.3.17 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'icon_light' Shortcode Attribute

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

The Dark Mode – Improve Accessibility with AI Powered Dark Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'icon_light' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.17 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

Announced Group revision 1
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CVE-2026-93535

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-93535

Dark Mode – Improve Accessibility with AI Powered Dark Theme

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

Affected versions
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Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "vendor": "wppool",
    "product": "Dark Mode – Improve Accessibility with AI Powered Dark Theme",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.3.17"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-93535

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#32530 · Revision 1
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