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CVE-2026-0800: User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End <= 20251210 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Custom Field

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the custom fields in all versions up to, and including, 20251210 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.

Affected products

• specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End: through 20251210

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3436859/user-submitted-posts
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1ec907bc-bd10-4dc5-be35-4f2aaf5ef444?source=cve

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