CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-16091
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-01
- Last modified
- 2026-08-12
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gamipress_rank' Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.9.9.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/filters.php#L1899 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/shortcodes/gamipress_rank.php#L197 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/shortcodes/gamipress_rank.php#L203 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/template-functions.php#L74 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/templates/rank.php#L162 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3619577%40gamipress&new=3619577%40gamipress plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d9f257a9-d447-407c-83ae-3cc99254be3f?source=cve www.wordfence.com