CVE-2026-0815Category Image <= 2.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'tag-image' Parameter
- 4.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.27%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 80% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Published
- 56 days later
· 56 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.27% · top 80% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 2.0
References
References3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fb28c526-67ae-441d-9964-5ac17b966687?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/category-image/tags/2.0/category-image.php#L28 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/category-image/trunk/category-image.php#L28 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-7054 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-0815)Record last updated .