WordPress plugin
User Submitted Posts < 20160215 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2016-11001Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <20160215Update to 20160215 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.2
- CVSS
- 7.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- 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?
User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End user-submitted-posts
- Affected< 20160215
- Patched in20160215
Update to 20160215 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 20160215. Version 20160215 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End.
- 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
- Update to version 20160215, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.
The user-submitted-posts plugin before 20160215 for WordPress has XSS via the user-submitted-content field.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium5.3 | Incorrect Authorization to Unauthenticated Category Restriction Bypass via 'user-submitted-category' Parameter ≤20260113Update to 20260217 | CVE-2026-2126 | |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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