Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Nov 6, 2026· Updated Nov 6, 2026
CVE-2026-116551
CVE-2026-116551
Description
The WP Customer Area plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 8.4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Affected products
1- Range: <=8.4.0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
9- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/customer-account-edit/customer-account-edit-addon.class.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/log/log-addon.class.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/log/log-table.class.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/post-owner/post-owner-user-owner-type.class.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/post-owner/templates/post-owner-link-usr.template.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-classes/object-meta/storage/user-storage.class.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3766831/customer-areanvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/676e563e-b89d-465c-912f-336a2157551anvd
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