Total <= 2.2.1 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Title in Blog Section Image alt Attribute
CVE-2026-5077Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.2.1Update to 2.2.2 or newer
All remediation stepsOn this page3
Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2026-5077
- Product
- Total total
- Affected
- ≤2.2.1
- Fixed in
- 2.2.2
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Low-privilege account (e.g. subscriber)
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Osvaldo Noe Gonzalez Del Rio (Os)
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 2.2.1
- Patched in2.2.2
Update to 2.2.2 or newer.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
The Total theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post titles in versions up to, and including, 2.2.1 due to insufficient output escaping when rendering the_title() inside HTML attribute context in the home blog section template. 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.
Exploitation requires the malicious post to be published and displayed with a featured image in the Home Page blog section.
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Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 2.2.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
- 4.3CVE-2024-1771Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sections Update
- 4.3CVE-2023-27456Authenticated(Subscriber+) Plugin Activation
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- 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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