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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Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:15:00 +0000

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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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-12T06:00:11.992Z

Reserved: 2026-02-18T14:09:37.224Z

Link: CVE-2026-2687

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-12T06:16:30.613

Modified: 2026-03-12T06:16:30.613

Link: CVE-2026-2687

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