CVE-2026-42644
MediumCVSS 5.3Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs
Summary
The BetterDocs plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 4.3.10 exposes sensitive system information to an unauthorized control sphere, allowing retrieval of embedded sensitive data.
Risk Assessment
Potential exposure of sensitive system data to unauthorized parties. This may lead to further attacks or information leakage.
Recommendation
Update BetterDocs to a fixed version or restrict access to data-exposing features. Review configuration for embedded sensitive data.
Other vulnerabilities in BetterDocs
See all- CVE-2026-75980Medium
The BetterDocs plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Heading 'id' Attribute in Post Content in all versions up to and including 4.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute whenever a user accesses the page.
- CVE-2026-65562Medium
The BetterDocs plugin version 4.6.2 and earlier has a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability for users with the Contributor role. A Contributor can inject malicious JavaScript code.
- CVE-2026-11371Medium
The BetterDocs WordPress plugin before version 4.5.5 does not sanitize an AI-generated documentation summary before storing and outputting it. The feature is exposed to unauthenticated users, allowing them to store a malicious payload via prompt injection that executes in the browser of any visitor, including administrators.
- CVE-2026-15104Medium
The BetterDocs plugin for WordPress up to version 4.6.0 is vulnerable to generic SQL injection via the 'lang' parameter. Authenticated attackers with custom-level access or higher can append additional SQL queries, allowing extraction of sensitive database information. Exploitation requires an active multilingual plugin (WPML, Polylang, qTranslate, Weglot, or TranslatePress).
Original NVD description (English source)
Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere vulnerability in WPDeveloper BetterDocs betterdocs allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data.This issue affects BetterDocs: from n/a through <= 4.3.10.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS