CVE-2026-1754 PUBLISHED

personal-authors-category <= 0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 02.02.2026 Published: 14.02.2026 Updated: 14.02.2026

The personal-authors-category plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the URL path in all versions up to, and including, 0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.1

Product Status

Vendor alexeyknyazev
Product personal-authors-category
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from * to 0.3 (incl.)

Credits

  • Abdulsamad Yusuf finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE