WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End < 20260916 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 20260810. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 20260916

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Ananda Dhakal
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-09-30 (about 17 days ago)
Added
2026-09-30 (about 16 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-30 (about 16 days ago)

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