Advanced Excerpt
Advanced Excerpt has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2026; it is fixed as of August 2026. Their average CVSS score is 4.4, and the most serious one scores 4.4 out of 10.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for Advanced Excerpt has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.
All of these findings were reported by Mustafa Ahmed. Advanced Excerpt is installed on roughly 80,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
CVE-2026-13701Advanced Excerpt <= 4.4 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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Advanced Excerpt
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WPKube
This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress’ default way of creating excerpts. Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included) Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count Only the ‘real’ text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept) Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts) Adds a read-more link to the text Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead Theme developers can use the_advanced_excerpt() for even more control (see the FAQ) Most of the above features are optional and/or can be customized by the user or theme developer. Banner image credit – chillihead Original plugin author – basvd Useful Resources What is WordPress Fee Themes and plugins
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