Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 19, 2026
CVE-2026-12042
CVE-2026-12042
Description
The WP2Social Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Affected products
1- Range: <=2.4.12
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
8- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.11/admin/ajax-actions.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.11/admin/ajax-actions.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.11/admin/settings.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.12/admin/ajax-actions.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.12/admin/ajax-actions.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.12/admin/settings.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f0886893-9cfd-44cb-8940-03dd99d4c574nvd
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