Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Mar 21, 2026· Updated Apr 22, 2026
CVE-2026-1278
CVE-2026-1278
Description
The Mandatory Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.8 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
2- Range: <=1.6.8
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
5- downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mandatory-fields.1.6.8.zipnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mandatory-fields/tags/1.6.8/mandatory-plugin-option-page.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mandatory-fields/trunk/mandatory-plugin-option-page.phpnvd
- wordpress.org/plugins/mandatory-fields/nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e262ec15-420a-4f52-90e0-e4a2e28402a1nvd
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