CVE-2026-119097
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
11/11/2026
Last modified:
11/11/2026
Description
The Author Image plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.3 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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sem-author-image/trunk/sem-author-image.php#L394
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sem-author-image/trunk/sem-author-image.php#L398
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sem-author-image/trunk/sem-author-image.php#L608
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ecce583b-1e72-44e1-ab33-6cc647e62119?source=cve


