Vulnerability in User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End — CVE-2026-62084
MediumSeverity
—Estimated exploit probability
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)
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.