stiofansisland UsersWP Plugin up to 1.2.69 on WordPress Badge Widget cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in stiofansisland UsersWP Plugin up to 1.2.69. It has been rated as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Badge Widget. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-18501. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in stiofansisland UsersWP Plugin up to 1.2.69. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component Badge Widget. 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. The summary by CVE is:

The UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Badge Widget Variable Substitution in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.69 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-18501 since 07/31/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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Type

• 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
• 1.2.61
• 1.2.62
• 1.2.63
• 1.2.64
• 1.2.65
• 1.2.66
• 1.2.67
• 1.2.68
• 1.2.69

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