CVE-2026-2382
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
02/06/2026
Last modified:
02/06/2026
Description
The FPW Category Thumbnails plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' parameter of the 'fpw_fs_get_file' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.5. This is 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 an administrator accesses the plugin's settings page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fpw-category-thumbnails/tags/1.9.5/ajax/getimageid.php#L10
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fpw-category-thumbnails/tags/1.9.5/classes/fpw-category-thumbnails-class.php#L54
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fpw-category-thumbnails/tags/1.9.5/code/table.php#L53
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1fdbddd7-8713-48c8-98d6-0a155ca68325?source=cve



