CVE-2026-1755: Menu Icons by ThemeIsle <= 0.13.20 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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: 2026-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Menu Icons by ThemeIsle plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘_wp_attachment_image_alt’ post meta in all versions up to, and including, 0.13.20 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

themeisle Menu Icons by ThemeIsle: through 0.13.20

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/menu-icons/tags/0.13.20/includes/front.php#L497
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3452685/menu-icons
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30bfa616-c7f3-4ff0-85b3-468debc8a73e?source=cve

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