WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
SEOPress < 10.3 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Author Display Name
Description
The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Author Display Name 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. Exploitation requires the 'Track Authors' custom dimension to be configured in the plugin's Google Analytics 4 or Matomo settings, and the attacker must be able to publish public singular content (e.g., via bbPress forum topics) so that the injected display name is rendered in the tracking script.
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Adrien Brunner
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-10-02 (about 15 days ago)
Added
2026-10-02 (about 14 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-16 (about 8 hours ago)