CVE-2026-18501CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2026-18501

Medium · published August 6, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00261 · 16.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-08-06T18:16Z
References (2)
https://github.com/AyeCode/userswp/pull/919/changes#diff-b9dd818f55e8124bf822f082676bc4a3facc8ec6928e917c5f9f73e228cf24a7R634 · [email protected]https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/98d3aa11-346e-4e1f-9c52-3b21b77b52e6?source=cve · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 AUG 13:27Z
    UsersWP <= 1.2.69 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Badge Widget Variable Substitution
    cvelistv5