The SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Author Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 10.2 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. Exploitation requires the 'Track Authors' custom dimension to be configured in the plugin's Google Analytics 4 or Matomo settings, and the attacker must be able to publish public singular content (e.g., via bbPress forum topics) so that the injected display name is rendered in the tracking script.

No CVSS v4.0

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Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

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Vendor Product Default status Versions
rainbowgeek SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 10.2

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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-seopress/tags/10.2/inc/functions/options-google-analytics.php#L635 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-seopress/tags/10.2/inc/functions/options-matomo.php#L118 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3722789%40wp-seopress&new=3722789%40wp-seopress cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5f5b75-abaf-4e4b-8509-f8b569519166?source=cve cve-icon
History

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 05:45:00 +0000

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Description The SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Author Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 10.2 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. Exploitation requires the 'Track Authors' custom dimension to be configured in the plugin's Google Analytics 4 or Matomo settings, and the attacker must be able to publish public singular content (e.g., via bbPress forum topics) so that the injected display name is rendered in the tracking script.
Title SEOPress <= 10.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Author Display Name
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-03T05:29:15.453Z

Reserved: 2026-09-23T13:18:39.398Z

Link: CVE-2026-96564

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