WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Post SMTP < 4.0.2 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via 'user_email' Parameter
Description
The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'user_email' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is exploitable without authentication on WordPress Multisite installations with public registration enabled, as WordPress accepts email addresses containing numeric HTML character references that Post SMTP's stricter validator rejects, persisting the attacker-controlled address verbatim to the email log via the failed-send exception message.
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Adrien Brunner
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-10-05 (about 12 days ago)
Added
2026-10-06 (about 11 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-06 (about 11 days ago)