🛡️ CVE-2026-0693
🟡 CVSS 4.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
4.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Allow HTML in Category Descriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via category descriptions in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.4. This is due to the plugin unconditionally removing the `wp_kses_data` output filter for term_description, link_description, link_notes, and user_description fields without checking user capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in category descriptions that will execute whenever a user accesses a page where the category description is displayed. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-02-14
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-04-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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