CVE-2026-96651: Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server path traversal

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.0083 · 57th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: cisa-cg) at 23 Sept 2026, 16:06 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Plex	Media Server	affected before 1.43.3.10861 custom unaffected 1.43.3.10861 Other versions: unknown

Identifiers

CVE-2026-96651

CNA

cisa-cg

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-22

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.5	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CNA (cisa-cg)
7.1	High	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (cisa-cg)Used for this record

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0083, the 57th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 23 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2026/va-26-266-01.json third-party-advisory
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96651 vdb-entry
forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/711 release-notes
zmain.info/blog/plex2shell third-party-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.