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CVE-2026-120552

MEDIUM 6.4

SEO Engine <= 0.9.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Entity-Encoded Post Title via Strip-then-Decode in build_title()

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The SEO Engine – Smart SEO with AI, Schema & Redirection for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 0.9.9 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. WordPress core's wp_filter_kses (applied via title_save_pre for Contributors and Authors) strips literal tag markup on save but leaves HTML-entity-encoded payloads intact in the database, meaning entity-encoded XSS payloads stored via the standard WordPress REST API (POST /wp-json/wp/v2/posts) are not neutralized before reaching the vulnerable sink.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor tigroumeow
Product seo engine – smart seo with ai, schema & redirection for wordpress
Published Nov 3, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

tigroumeow / SEO Engine – Smart SEO with AI, Schema & Redirection for WordPress
0 ≤ 0.9.9

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/454a05eb-fd4e-4125-abd0-7ba90ee2048a?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-engine/tags/0.9.9/classes/core.php#L744 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-engine/tags/0.9.9/classes/core.php#L739 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-engine/tags/0.9.9/classes/rest.php#L1381 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-engine/tags/0.9.9/classes/rest.php#L164 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-engine/tags/0.9.9/app/index.js plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/seo-engine/tags/0.9.9&new_path=/seo-engine/tags/1.0.0

Credits

Wordfence PRISM