Medium severity · published Oct 31, 2026
CVE-2026-111592
Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors <= 4.17.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via display_name profile-sync into author term name
New
6.4
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'name (maps to display_name)' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.17.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires the attacker's user account to have a mapped author term, which occurs when an administrator has assigned them as a co-author on content or has enabled automatic author term creation for their role — this mapping is not present by default for new users on a stock install.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 9% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CM
Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors · publishpress
through 4.17.0 · source: vendor
Affected product
CM
Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors
publishpress
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111592
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-111592
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publishpress-authors/tags/4.17.0/src/core/Classes/Author_Editor.php#L86
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publishpress-authors/tags/4.17.0/src/modules/multiple-authors/multiple-authors.php#L302
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publishpress-authors/tags/4.17.0/src/modules/multiple-authors/multiple-authors.php#L5233
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/publishpress-authors/tags/4.18.0/src/core/Classes/Author_Editor.php
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/329226bc-7d0e-45e0-8ac0-656517e0e4ca?source=cve
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