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

Fixed in 10.3

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Adrien Brunner
Verified
No

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)

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