Vulnerability in Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files — CVE-2026-18558

What to do now

Update Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files to 2.7.14 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything up to and including 2.7.13

The Embed Any Document – Embed PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'embeddoc' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.13 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.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9817f6b8-19c2-46d6-8169-f8abbc695379?source=api-prod

Part of this record comes from Wordfence Intelligence. Original: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9817f6b8-19c2-46d6-8169-f8abbc695379
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