CVE-2026-2687

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).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-02-18 | Published 2026-03-12 | Updated 2026-03-12 | Assigner WPScan

Problem types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Product status

Credits

Krugov Artyom finder

WPScan coordinator

References

wpscan.com/...rability/af2e1249-2b69-47b6-85aa-9a6b30c51936/ exploit vdb-entry technical-description

cve.org (CVE-2026-2687)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-2687)

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