specialk User Submitted Posts Plugin up to 20260916 on WordPress user-submitted-content cross site scripting

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in specialk User Submitted Posts Plugin up to 20260916. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument user-submitted-content leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-119162. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in specialk User Submitted Posts Plugin up to 20260916 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation of the argument user-submitted-content 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. The summary by CVE is:

The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the 'user-submitted-content' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 20260916 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. On a default installation the submitted post is held as Pending and requires admin approval before the payload is reachable by other visitors; however, if the plugin's "publish immediately" option is enabled, no approval step exists and the stored payload becomes live without any moderator interaction.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-119162 since 10/29/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-114603). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• specialk

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• User Submitted Posts Plugin

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• 20260916

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