WordPress Vulnerabilities
WP 4.9 - 7.1.3 - Editor+ Stored XSS via Data Erasure Requests
Description
WordPress does not escape a user-supplied value before outputting it on an administrative screen in some cases, which could allow users with the Editor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that run in the context of a logged-in administrator.
Affects WordPress
References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Anthropic
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-10-29 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-10-29 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-29 (about 1 day ago)