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Category Image, CVE-2026-0815

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2026-0815

Application

Category Image

Published on
Feb 11, 2026
Research Description
The Category Image plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'tag-image' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions
max 2.0.
Status
vulnerable