{"id":"CVE-2026-16091","title":"The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gamipress_rank' Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.…","summary":"The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gamipress_rank' Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.…","severity":"medium","cvss":6.4,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","cwe":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-08-01","updated":"2026-08-01","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16091","references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/filters.php#L1899","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/shortcodes/gamipress_rank.php#L197","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/shortcodes/gamipress_rank.php#L203","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/template-functions.php#L74","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/templates/rank.php#L162","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3619577%40gamipress&new=3619577%40gamipress","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d9f257a9-d447-407c-83ae-3cc99254be3f?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00195,"epssPercentile":0.09514,"ingestedAt":"2026-08-02T05:17:48.298Z","slug":"CVE-2026-16091","body":"## Overview\n\nThe GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gamipress_rank' Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.9.9.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":35,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":35.2,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}