larsdrasmussen rexCrawler Plugin up to 1.0.15 on WordPress url/regex cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in larsdrasmussen rexCrawler Plugin up to 1.0.15 on WordPress. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation of the argument url/regex leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-2277. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in larsdrasmussen rexCrawler Plugin up to 1.0.15 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument url/regex with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The rexCrawler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'url' and 'regex' parameters in the search-pattern tester page in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.15 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

The weakness was presented by san6051. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-2277 since 02/10/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

Upgrading to version 1.0.15 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• larsdrasmussen

Name

• rexCrawler Plugin

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15

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