CVE-2026-85657CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2026-85657

Medium · published September 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 ‘profile_fields_user_email_value_prefix’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.15.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user clicks on a link.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00235 · 13.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-09-15T05:16Z
References (2)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publishpress-authors/tags/4.15.0/src/modules/author-boxes/author-boxes.php#L2019 · [email protected]https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d4cc9537-879c-4c12-8b76-60241b7a3420?source=cve · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 03:33Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 15 SEP 01:03Z
    Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors <= 4.15.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'profile_fields_user_email_value_prefix' Parameter
    cvelistv5