Molongui Authorship <= 5.2.12 - Unauthenticated Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Comment href Attribute

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-101920
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerWordfence
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-10-10 08:17:03 UTC
Updated2026-10-13 13:30:21 UTC
DescriptionThe Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment (href attribute inside comment content)' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.12 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. This is exploitable in the free build because the plugin's author-filter rewriter never appends the ?m_bm=true marker to its own anchors (Plugin::has_pro() returns false), meaning every href the byline script selects and rewrites is fully attacker-controlled.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.2 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 0.002970000 probability, percentile 0.206450000 (date 2026-10-12)

Problem Types: CWE-79 | CWE-79 CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary7.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
3.1CNADECLARED7.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Molongui Molongui Authorship Author Boxes Guest Authors Co-Authors For WordPress affected 5.2.12 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/molongui-authorship/tags/5.2.12/includes/author-filte... [email protected] plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/molongui-authorship/tags/5.2.12/assets/js/byline.4cc4... [email protected] plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/molongui-authorship/tags/5.3.0/assets/js/byline.849a.... [email protected] plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1bf63dd3-9fd1-4b72-b7e0-48155... [email protected] www.wordfence.com
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/molongui-authorship/tags/5.2.12/includes/author-filte... [email protected] plugins.trac.wordpress.org
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: crow (en)

Additional Advisory Data

SourceTimeEvent
CNA2026-10-01T21:23:57.000ZVendor Notified
CNA2026-10-09T19:41:21.000ZDisclosed

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