CVE-2026-1373: Easy Author Image <= 1.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Profile Picture URL

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2026-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Easy Author Image plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'author_profile_picture_url' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

lawsonry Easy Author Image: through 1.7

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-author-image/tags/1.7/easy-author-image.php#L149
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eaa53088-c383-4315-9871-b4ceb83f5fdb?source=cve

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