davidanderson Easy Updates Manager Plugin up to 9.0.20 on WordPress pagination paged cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in davidanderson Easy Updates Manager Plugin up to 9.0.20 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is the function pagination. Executing a manipulation of the argument paged can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-7660. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in davidanderson Easy Updates Manager Plugin up to 9.0.20 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects the function pagination. The manipulation of the argument paged 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 Easy Updates Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'paged' parameter in versions up to, and including, 9.0.20 This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the pagination() function. This makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

The weakness was presented by Dmitrii Ignatyev. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-7660 since 05/01/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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

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• WordPress Plugin

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• davidanderson

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• Easy Updates Manager Plugin

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• 9.0.0
• 9.0.1
• 9.0.2
• 9.0.3
• 9.0.4
• 9.0.5
• 9.0.6
• 9.0.7
• 9.0.8
• 9.0.9
• 9.0.10
• 9.0.11
• 9.0.12
• 9.0.13
• 9.0.14
• 9.0.15
• 9.0.16
• 9.0.17
• 9.0.18
• 9.0.19
• 9.0.20

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