CVE CVE-2026-16091

CVE-2026-16091

WordPress

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS: 6.4CVSS
Published: 2026-08-01
Last modified: 2026-08-01
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE: CWE-79

Description

The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gamipress_rank' Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.9.9.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/filters.php#L1899
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/shortcodes/gamipress_rank.php#L197
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/shortcodes/gamipress_rank.php#L203
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/template-functions.php#L74
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/templates/rank.php#L162

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