# CVE-2026-119162: CVE-2026-119162

Status: published. Published: 2026-10-31. Updated: 2026-11-01.

The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the 'user-submitted-content' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 20260916 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. On a default installation the submitted post is held as Pending and requires admin approval before the payload is reachable by other visitors; however, if the plugin's "publish immediately" option is enabled, no approval step exists and the stored payload becomes live without any moderator interaction.

## Remediation

No remediation reported in collected sources

## Affected products and versions

Not reported in collected sources.

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 7.2 (high); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N; source: NVD: security@wordfence.com

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: Not available

- SSVC: exploitation none; automatable no; technical impact partial; source NVD SSVC: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- Weaknesses: CWE-79

## Exploit evidence

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

## References

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/trunk/library/shortcode-login.php#L80 (security@wordfence.com)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/trunk/user-submitted-posts.php#L1426 (security@wordfence.com)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/trunk/user-submitted-posts.php#L440 (security@wordfence.com)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/trunk/user-submitted-posts.php#L643 (security@wordfence.com)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3773792/user-submitted-posts/trunk/library/shortcode-login.php (security@wordfence.com)

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6486ffd9-4c8b-49a0-8493-0743f945b0f6?source=cve (security@wordfence.com)

## Provenance

- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119162; retrieved 2026-11-02; source updated 2026-11-01

Revision: d752c29843f735b8cc9aa1cd7e0ffe8b776972bec109a53db5e7c3c259c2bb4a

Canonical: https://y2.dev/cve/CVE-2026-119162