hashthemes Total Plugin up to 2.2.1 on WordPress Home Page Blog Section the_title cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in hashthemes Total Plugin up to 2.2.1 on WordPress. This issue affects the function the_title of the component Home Page Blog Section. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-5077. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in hashthemes Total Plugin up to 2.2.1 on WordPress. This affects the function the_title of the component Home Page Blog Section. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Total theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post titles in versions up to, and including, 2.2.1 due to insufficient output escaping when rendering the_title() inside HTML attribute context in the home blog section template. 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. Exploitation requires the malicious post to be published and displayed with a featured image in the Home Page blog section.

The weakness was disclosed by Osvaldo Noe Gonzalez Del Rio. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-5077 since 03/28/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-26768). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• hashthemes

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• Total Plugin

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• 2.2.0
• 2.2.1

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