{"id":"CVE-2026-12042","title":"The WP2Social Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping","summary":"The WP2Social Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possib…","severity":"medium","cvss":4.4,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","cwe":["CWE-79"],"vendor":"f1logic","product":"WP2Social Auto Publish","affected":["wp2social_auto_publish <= 2.4.12"],"published":"2026-09-19","updated":"2026-09-21","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-21T13:33:33.387","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12042","references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.11/admin/ajax-actions.php#L39","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.11/admin/ajax-actions.php#L46","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.11/admin/settings.php#L534","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.12/admin/ajax-actions.php#L39","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.12/admin/ajax-actions.php#L46","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.12/admin/settings.php#L534","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3650775%40facebook-auto-publish&new=3650775%40facebook-auto-publish","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f0886893-9cfd-44cb-8940-03dd99d4c574?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.00208,"epssPercentile":0.11207,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-09-19T13:21:15.669363Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-09-19T02:56:32.974Z","slug":"CVE-2026-12042","body":"## Overview\n\nThe WP2Social Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":24,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":24.2,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}