🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-96840

HIGH 7.2

Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks <= 5.1.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via display_name User Field

CVSS Score
7.2
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks – PostX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via display_name User Field in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. WordPress core's pre_user_display_name filter encodes &, <, and > but leaves double-quotes intact (ENT_NOQUOTES), allowing a Subscriber-level user to store a double-quote in their display_name via /wp-admin/profile.php that subsequently breaks out of the alt="" attribute at Archive_Title.php:144.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor wpxpo
Product post grid gutenberg blocks – postx
Published Oct 10, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Affected Versions

wpxpo / Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks – PostX
0 ≤ 5.1.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/39472e87-174c-4abf-bc83-fed0939440af?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/5.0.41/addons/builder/blocks/Archive_Title.php#L144 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/5.0.41/addons/builder/blocks/Archive_Title.php#L98 wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-post/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3727209/ultimate-post/trunk/addons/builder/blocks/Archive_Title.php

Credits

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