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Require & Limit Categories, Tags, Featured Image and taxonomies <= 1.26 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

988c1968-ef92-4d3d-bbd5-88e73512ebb4Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.26Update to 1.27 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Require & Limit Categories, Tags, Featured Image and taxonomies require-taxonomy-image-category-tag

  1. Affected≤ 1.26
  2. Patched in1.27

Update to 1.27 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.26. Version 1.27 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Require & Limit Categories, Tags, Featured Image and taxonomies.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.27, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Require & Limit Categories, Tags, Featured Image and taxonomies to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to WPScanTeam.

The Require & Limit Categories, Tags, Featured Image and taxonomies plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.26 due to the use of add_query_arg/remove_query_arg with insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages via a URL that executes if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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