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CVE-2016-11001

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The user-submitted-posts plugin before 20160215 for WordPress has XSS via the user-submitted-content field.

Affected products

• specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End: before 20160215 — fixed in 20160215

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End 20160215. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-submitted-posts/#developers
• https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537616/30/0/threaded
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-submitted-posts/#developers
• https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537616/30/0/threaded

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