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GHSA-6X99-GC47-W4J4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-31 09:31 – Updated: 2026-10-31 09:31

Details

The Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'name (maps to display_name)' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.17.0 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. Exploitation requires the attacker's user account to have a mapped author term, which occurs when an administrator has assigned them as a co-author on content or has enabled automatic author term creation for their role — this mapping is not present by default for new users on a stock install.

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2026-111592 (GCVE-0-2026-111592)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-31 07:46 – Updated: 2026-11-01 17:44

Title

Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors <= 4.17.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via display_name profile-sync into author term name

Summary

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-11-01 17:34 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Assigner

Wordfence CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2364 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publis…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publis…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publis…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publis…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
publishpress	Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors	Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.17.0 (semver)

Credits

muhammad nizar

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