CVE-2023-0926: The Custom Permalinks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.6.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on tag names.

medium Affects custom-permalinks (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The Custom Permalinks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.6.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on tag names.

Package
custom-permalinks (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<2.7.0
Fixed in
2.7.0
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.4
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (25.1th percentile)
Published
2024-08-24
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordcustom-permalinks (WordPress plugin) advisories

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