CVE-2026-119162
User Submitted Posts <= 20260916 - Unauthenticated Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 'user-submitted-content' Parameter via Block-Comment Shortcode Splitting
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the 'user-submitted-content' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 20260916 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. On a default installation the submitted post is held as Pending and requires admin approval before the payload is reachable by other visitors; however, if the plugin's "publish immediately" option is enabled, no approval step exists and the stored payload becomes live without any moderator interaction.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
specialk · User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End
- affected ≤ 20260916
References (6)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6486ffd9-4c8b-49a0-8493-0743f945b0f6?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/trunk/library/shortcode-login.php#L80 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/trunk/user-submitted-posts.php#L643 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/trunk/user-submitted-posts.php#L440 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/trunk/user-submitted-posts.php#L1426 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3773792/user-submitted-posts/trunk/library/shortcode-login.php (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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