User Frontend <= 4.3.13 — Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Taxonomy Field Text-Input
CVE-2026-109214Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤4.3.13Update to 4.3.14 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 Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission wp-user-frontend
- Affected≤ 4.3.13
- Patched in4.3.14
Update to 4.3.14 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 4.3.13. Version 4.3.14 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 Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission.
- 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 4.3.14, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Chakradhar Chirumamilla.
The User Frontend – Membership, User Registration, User Profile, User Directory & Content Restriction with Frontend Post Submission plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the '<taxonomy_field_name> (default: 'category')' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.13 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires the target installation to have configured a Taxonomy field in text-input mode with guest post submission enabled on at least one frontend form.
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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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
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