# CVE-2026-118189: Posts Table with Search & Sort <= 1.4.14 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'date_format' Shortcode Attribute

Status: published. Published: 2026-11-06. Updated: 2026-11-06.

The Posts Table with Search & Sort plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'date_format' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. The payload bypasses wp_kses_post at save time because it contains no literal angle bracket characters; the malicious HTML tags are only reconstructed at render time, making this exploitable by Contributors who would ordinarily lack the unfiltered_html capability.

## Remediation

No remediation reported in collected sources

## Affected products and versions

- barn2media / Posts Table with Search & Sort: ≥ 0; ≤ 1.4.14 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: Wordfence

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 6.4 (medium); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N; source: CNA: Wordfence

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: Not available

- SSVC: Not available

- Weaknesses: CWE-79

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ac45e56-606a-445f-84ec-349b68109065?source=cve (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posts-data-table/tags/1.4.14/src/Simple_Posts_Table.php#L338 (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posts-data-table/tags/1.4.14/src/Simple_Posts_Table.php#L345 (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posts-data-table/tags/1.4.14/src/Table_Shortcode.php#L33 (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3780094/posts-data-table/trunk/src/Simple_Posts_Table.php (CNA: Wordfence)

## Provenance

- CNA: Wordfence: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118189; retrieved 2026-11-06; source updated 2026-11-06

Revision: 72994494e4750d0f0d9b9128d8d91ee9a19d8955dfe5d497bb7316b5c97f4717

Canonical: https://y2.dev/cve/CVE-2026-118189

## Agent and API access

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