Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2026-2498
CVE-2026-2498
Description
The WP Social Meta plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 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: <=1.0.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
5- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social-meta/tags/1.0.1/wpsm.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social-meta/tags/1.0.1/wpsm.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social-meta/trunk/wpsm.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social-meta/trunk/wpsm.phpnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/313906d3-3999-4255-b9ac-580d9d3e80e6nvd
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