stiofansisland UsersWP Plugin up to 1.2.60 on WordPress cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in stiofansisland UsersWP Plugin up to 1.2.60 on WordPress. The impacted element is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-5742. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in stiofansisland UsersWP Plugin up to 1.2.60 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

The UsersWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 1.2.60. This is due to insufficient input sanitization of user-supplied URL fields and improper output escaping when rendering user profile data in badge widgets. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute whenever a user accesses a page containing the affected badge widget.

The weakness was released by Osvaldo Noe Gonzalez Del Rio. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-5742 since 04/07/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.2.55 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-20846). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• stiofansisland

Name

• UsersWP Plugin

Version

• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.9
• 1.2.10
• 1.2.11
• 1.2.12
• 1.2.13
• 1.2.14
• 1.2.15
• 1.2.16
• 1.2.17
• 1.2.18
• 1.2.19
• 1.2.20
• 1.2.21
• 1.2.22
• 1.2.23
• 1.2.24
• 1.2.25
• 1.2.26
• 1.2.27
• 1.2.28
• 1.2.29
• 1.2.30
• 1.2.31
• 1.2.32
• 1.2.33
• 1.2.34
• 1.2.35
• 1.2.36
• 1.2.37
• 1.2.38
• 1.2.39
• 1.2.40
• 1.2.41
• 1.2.42
• 1.2.43
• 1.2.44
• 1.2.45
• 1.2.46
• 1.2.47
• 1.2.48
• 1.2.49
• 1.2.50
• 1.2.51
• 1.2.52
• 1.2.53
• 1.2.54
• 1.2.55
• 1.2.56
• 1.2.57
• 1.2.58
• 1.2.59
• 1.2.60

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