The Reading progressbar WordPress plugin before 1.3.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
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| Description | The Reading progressbar WordPress plugin before 1.3.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup). | |
| Title | Reading progressbar < 1.3.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: WPScan
Published: 2026-03-12T06:00:11.992Z
Updated: 2026-03-12T13:39:16.674Z
Reserved: 2026-02-18T14:09:37.224Z
Link: CVE-2026-2687
Updated: 2026-03-12T13:39:07.091Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-03-12T06:16:30.613
Modified: 2026-03-12T21:07:53.427
Link: CVE-2026-2687
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