CVE-2026-9833 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms WordPress plugin before 2.2.0 does not properly escape one of its AJAX parameters before reflecting it in the response body served with an HTML content type, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser of a logged-in user with `edit_pages` capability (Editor or higher) who is tricked into following a crafted link.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00164.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/75792c33-2d9d-46db-a98c-00ec40951099/

History

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms WordPress plugin before 2.2.0 does not properly escape one of its AJAX parameters before reflecting it in the response body served with an HTML content type, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser of a logged-in user with `edit_pages` capability (Editor or higher) who is tricked into following a crafted link.
Title		Tag Groups < 2.2.0 - Reflected XSS via 'tag_groups_task' Parameter
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/75792c33-2d9d-46db-a98c-00ec40951099/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-07-20T06:00:05.477Z

Updated: 2026-07-20T13:07:10.885Z

Reserved: 2026-05-28T12:39:27.707Z

Link: CVE-2026-9833

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-20T13:07:03.628Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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