SEOPress <= 10.2 — Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Author Display Name
CVE-2026-96564Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤10.2Update to 10.3 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
On this page8
Am I affected?
SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO wp-seopress
- Affected≤ 10.2
- Patched in10.3
Update to 10.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 10.2. Version 10.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO.
- 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 10.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Adrien Brunner.
The SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Author Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 10.2 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 'Track Authors' custom dimension to be configured in the plugin's Google Analytics 4 or Matomo settings, and the attacker must be able to publish public singular content (e.g., via bbPress forum topics) so that the injected display name is rendered in the tracking script.
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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| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'seopress_google_analytics_affiliate_tracking' and 'seopress_google_analytics_download_tracking' Parameters ≤10.3Update to 10.4 | CVE-2026-120515 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Custom Role+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting <10.4Update to 10.4 | CVE-2026-108041 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'display_name' Profile Field via %%archive_title%% Template Tag ≤10.3Update to 10.4 | CVE-2026-116535 | |
| Medium4.9 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'seopress_google_analytics_matomo_id' Parameter ≤10.2Update to 10.3 | CVE-2026-101357 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery ≤10.1Update to 10.2 | CVE-2026-85305 |
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- Medium4.9Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'seopress_google_analytics_matomo_id' Parameter
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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