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CVE-2026-18501: UsersWP <= 1.2.69 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Badge Widget Variable Substitution

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-06 · updated 2026-08-12
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Badge Widget Variable Substitution in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.69 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

• stiofansisland UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP: through 1.2.69

References

• https://github.com/AyeCode/userswp/pull/919/changes#diff-b9dd818f55e8124bf822f082676bc4a3facc8ec6928e917c5f9f73e228cf24a7R634
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/98d3aa11-346e-4e1f-9c52-3b21b77b52e6?source=cve

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