The Post Grid, Slider & Carousel Ultimate WordPress plugin before 1.8.1 does not sanitise and escape one of its custom post type settings before outputting it in an HTML attribute on the admin edit screen, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject JavaScript that executes in the session of any administrator who opens the affected item.
History

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-79

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:15:00 +0000

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Description The Post Grid, Slider & Carousel Ultimate WordPress plugin before 1.8.1 does not sanitise and escape one of its custom post type settings before outputting it in an HTML attribute on the admin edit screen, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to inject JavaScript that executes in the session of any administrator who opens the affected item.
Title Post Grid, Slider & Carousel Ultimate < 1.8.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Header Title Field
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-22T06:00:15.962Z

Reserved: 2026-07-20T08:30:12.390Z

Link: CVE-2026-16260

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-22T06:16:14.833

Modified: 2026-08-22T06:16:14.833

Link: CVE-2026-16260

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-22T07:30:17Z