Vulnerabilities and security researches forfaces-of-users faces-of-users

May 23, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-8038
Home page URL: Security reports for Faces of Users
Application: Faces of Users
Date: May 20, 2026
Research Description: The Faces of Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'default' shortcode attribute in the 'facesofusers' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: max 0.0.3.
Status: vulnerable