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        "lang": "en",
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            {
                "category": "legal_disclaimer",
                "text": "The Netherlands Cyber Security Center (henceforth: NCSC-NL) maintains this portal to enhance access to its information and vulnerabilities. The use of this information is subject to the following terms and conditions:\n\nThe vulnerabilities disclosed in this portal are gathered by NCSC-NL from a variety of open sources, which the user can retrieve from other platforms. NCSC-NL makes every reasonable effort to ensure that the content of this portal is kept up to date, and that it is accurate and complete. Nevertheless, NCSC-NL cannot entirely rule out the possibility of errors, and therefore cannot give any warranty in respect of its completeness, accuracy or real-time keeping up-to-date. NCSC-NL does not control nor guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information obtained from these external sources. The vulnerabilities disclosed in this portal are intended solely for the convenience of professional parties to take appropriate measures to manage the risks posed to the cybersecurity. No rights can be derived from the information provided therein.\n\nNCSC-NL and the Kingdom of the Netherlands assume no legal liability or responsibility for any damage resulting from either the use or inability of use of the vulnerabilities disclosed in this portal. This includes damage resulting from the inaccuracy of incompleteness of the information contained in it.\nThe information on this page is subject to Dutch law. All disputes related to or arising from the use of this portal regarding the disclosure of vulnerabilities will be submitted to the competent court in The Hague. This choice of means also applies to the court in summary proceedings."
            }
        ],
        "publisher": {
            "category": "coordinator",
            "contact_details": "cert@ncsc.nl",
            "name": "National Cyber Security Centre",
            "namespace": "https://www.ncsc.nl/"
        },
        "title": "CVE-2026-4329",
        "tracking": {
            "current_release_date": "2026-03-26T18:39:57.985999Z",
            "generator": {
                "date": "2026-02-17T15:00:00Z",
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                    "name": "V.E.L.M.A",
                    "version": "1.7"
                }
            },
            "id": "CVE-2026-4329",
            "initial_release_date": "2026-02-25T10:27:48.314434Z",
            "revision_history": [
                {
                    "date": "2026-02-25T10:27:48.314434Z",
                    "number": "1",
                    "summary": "NCSC Score created."
                },
                {
                    "date": "2026-03-26T04:38:48.254366Z",
                    "number": "2",
                    "summary": "Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| CVSS created.| Products created (1).| References created (12).| CWES updated (1)."
                },
                {
                    "date": "2026-03-26T04:38:53.442245Z",
                    "number": "3",
                    "summary": "NCSC Score updated."
                },
                {
                    "date": "2026-03-26T05:25:33.278299Z",
                    "number": "4",
                    "summary": "Source created.| CVE status created. (valid)| Description created for source.| CVSS created.| References created (12).| CWES updated (1)."
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                {
                    "date": "2026-03-26T05:25:44.634902Z",
                    "number": "5",
                    "summary": "NCSC Score updated."
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                {
                    "date": "2026-03-26T07:35:19.123710Z",
                    "number": "6",
                    "summary": "NCSC Score updated."
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                {
                    "date": "2026-03-26T14:58:41.546588Z",
                    "number": "7",
                    "summary": "Source connected.| CVE status created. (valid)| EPSS created."
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                {
                    "date": "2026-03-26T18:39:04.501874Z",
                    "number": "8",
                    "summary": "Unknown change."
                }
            ],
            "status": "interim",
            "version": "8"
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    },
    "product_tree": {
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            {
                "branches": [
                    {
                        "branches": [
                            {
                                "category": "product_version_range",
                                "name": "vers:semver/<=3.8",
                                "product": {
                                    "name": "vers:semver/<=3.8",
                                    "product_id": "CSAFPID-5914494"
                                }
                            }
                        ],
                        "category": "product_name",
                        "name": "Blackhole for Bad Bots"
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                ],
                "category": "vendor",
                "name": "specialk"
            }
        ]
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        {
            "cve": "CVE-2026-4329",
            "cwe": {
                "id": "CWE-79",
                "name": "Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')"
            },
            "notes": [
                {
                    "category": "description",
                    "text": "The Blackhole for Bad Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the User-Agent HTTP header in all versions up to and including 3.8. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. The plugin uses sanitize_text_field() when capturing bot data (which strips HTML tags but does not escape HTML entities like double quotes), then stores the data via update_option(). When an administrator views the Bad Bots log page, the stored data is output directly into HTML input value attributes (lines 75-83) without esc_attr() and into HTML span content without esc_html(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when an administrator views the Blackhole Bad Bots admin page.",
                    "title": "cveprojectv5 - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/4xxx/CVE-2026-4329.json"
                },
                {
                    "category": "description",
                    "text": "The Blackhole for Bad Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the User-Agent HTTP header in all versions up to and including 3.8. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. The plugin uses sanitize_text_field() when capturing bot data (which strips HTML tags but does not escape HTML entities like double quotes), then stores the data via update_option(). When an administrator views the Bad Bots log page, the stored data is output directly into HTML input value attributes (lines 75-83) without esc_attr() and into HTML span content without esc_html(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when an administrator views the Blackhole Bad Bots admin page.",
                    "title": "nvd - https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2026-4329"
                },
                {
                    "category": "other",
                    "text": "0.00119",
                    "title": "EPSS"
                },
                {
                    "category": "other",
                    "text": "3.7",
                    "title": "NCSC Score"
                },
                {
                    "category": "other",
                    "text": "There is cwe data available from source Nvd, Is related to CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))",
                    "title": "NCSC Score top decreasing factors"
                }
            ],
            "product_status": {
                "known_affected": [
                    "CSAFPID-5914494"
                ]
            },
            "references": [
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Source - cveprojectv5",
                    "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/4xxx/CVE-2026-4329.json"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Source - nvd",
                    "url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2026-4329"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Source - first",
                    "url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?limit=10000&offset=0"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a71992e2-fdac-4e89-8867-4b771d9b4374?source=cve"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/trunk/inc/badbots-register.php#L75"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/trunk/inc/badbots-register.php#L85"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/trunk/inc/badbots-register.php#L79"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/tags/3.8/inc/badbots-register.php#L79"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/tags/3.8/inc/badbots-register.php#L85"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/tags/3.8/inc/badbots-register.php#L75"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/trunk/inc/blackhole-helpers.php#L22"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/tags/3.8/inc/blackhole-helpers.php#L22"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/trunk/inc/blackhole-core.php#L180"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blackhole-bad-bots/tags/3.8/inc/blackhole-core.php#L180"
                },
                {
                    "category": "external",
                    "summary": "Reference - cveprojectv5; nvd",
                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3487350%40blackhole-bad-bots&new=3487350%40blackhole-bad-bots&sfp_email=&sfph_mail="
                }
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                {
                    "cvss_v3": {
                        "version": "3.1",
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                        "baseScore": 7.2,
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                    },
                    "products": [
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                    ]
                }
            ],
            "title": "CVE-2026-4329"
        }
    ]
}