---
id: CVE-2026-96278
title: >-
  The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored
  Cross-Site Scripting via REQUEST_URI Session History in all versions up to,
  and including, 9.3.03.002 due to insufficient input sanitization and output
  escaping
summary: >-
  The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored
  Cross-Site Scripting via REQUEST_URI Session History in all versions up to,
  and including, 9.3.03.002 due to insufficient input sanitization and output
  escaping. This m…
severity: high
cvss: 7.2
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
published: '2026-10-10'
updated: '2026-10-10'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-10T08:17:07.567'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96278'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.02.003/js/wppa-admin-scripts.js#L1249
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.02.003/wppa-input.php#L479
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.02.003/wppa-maintenance.php#L1851
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.02.003/wppa-session.php#L141
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/095e93d0-ad0d-4613-887e-5e47a2ef2b96?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
ingestedAt: '2026-10-10T08:27:37.795Z'
---

## Overview

The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via REQUEST_URI Session History in all versions up to, and including, 9.3.03.002 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The bypass works because esc_url_raw() strips literal angle brackets but retains HTML entities, which wppaEntityDecode() silently converts back to live HTML tags before jQuery('#wppa-modal-container').html() renders them.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.