CVE-2026-18579CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2026-18579

High · published September 11, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 9.2.08.003 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. The nonce failure path for the getshortcodedrenderedfenodelay action serves as the log-write trigger rather than an access barrier — a deliberately failed nonce check causes wppa_log() to record the attacker-supplied X-Forwarded-For value to disk, making the exploit fully reachable by unauthenticated callers via the wp_ajax_nopriv_wppa endpoint.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00292 · 20.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-09-11T08:17Z
References (11)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/js/wppa-admin-scripts.js#L2069 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/wppa-ajax.php#L1246 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/wppa-input.php#L560 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/wppa-utils.php#L1960 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/js/wppa-admin-scripts.js#L2069 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/wppa-ajax.php#L1246 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/wppa-input.php#L560 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/wppa-utils.php#L1960 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3641521%40wp-photo-album-plus%2Ftrunk%2Fjs%2Fwppa-admin-scripts.js&old=3625666%40wp-photo-album-plus%2Ftrunk%2Fjs%2Fwppa-admin-scripts.js&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3641521%40wp-photo-album-plus%2Ftrunk%2Fwppa-input.php&old=3619969%40wp-photo-album-plus%2Ftrunk%2Fwppa-input.php&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · [email protected]https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/251943ed-65d2-4635-9c84-2cf671233543?source=cve · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 SEP 03:19Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 11 SEP 03:39Z
    WP Photo Album Plus <= 9.2.08.003 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
    cvelistv5