CVE-2026-17025: Graphene <= 2.9.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Profile Fields

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: 2026-10-10 · updated 2026-10-13
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Graphene theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Current location' and 'Author profile image URL' Profile Fields in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.4 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

silverks Graphene: through 2.9.4

References

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fgraphene%2F2.9.4%2Fadmin%2Fuser.php&new_path=%2Fgraphene%2F2.9.6%2Fadmin%2Fuser.php
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fgraphene%2F2.9.4%2Floop-author.php&new_path=%2Fgraphene%2F2.9.6%2Floop-author.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e9df994d-a767-4c63-bf4b-3a2ecfe34bb6?source=cve

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