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Vulnerability in User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End — CVE-2026-62084

MediumSeverity
CVSS 6.4
—Estimated exploit probability
EPSS
10,000+ sitesInstalls
20260916Fixed in

What to do now

Update User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End to 20260916 or later.

Affected versions

  • Everything up to and including 20260810

Affected: User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End (plugin, user-submitted-posts)

Check: The plugin on wordpress.org / Our record for User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End

What the vulnerability is

The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 20260810. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

Sources

Part of this record comes from Wordfence Intelligence. Original: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a6085fb-f701-4a85-9dca-3e04091f34c6
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