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Head Meta Data, CVE-2026-0608

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2026-0608

Application

Head Meta Data

Published on
Jan 20, 2026
Research Description
The Head Meta Data plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'head-meta-data' post meta field in all versions up to, and including, 20251118 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 20260105.
Status
vulnerable