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This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when users interact with the injected frontend page via the 'class' shortcode attribute.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00246,"percentile":0.15879,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-04-18T09:26:52Z","modified":"2026-06-17T10:31:12Z","products":[{"vendor":"elzahlan","product":"categories images"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/34fb64d5-e152-4950-9ef4-6d53a97a56fb?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3499275/categories-images"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-2505"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jx47-j339-6qpw"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-2505","title":"Categories Images \u003c= 3.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'z_taxonomy_image' Shortcode","description":"The Categories Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 3.3.1, via the 'z_taxonomy_image' shortcode. This is due to the shortcode rendering path passing attacker-controlled class input into a fallback image builder that concatenates HTML attributes without proper escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when users interact with the injected frontend page via the 'class' shortcode attribute.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-18T09:26:52.654Z","modified":"2026-04-20T13:46:07.918Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:48:46.911326Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-23672","description":"The Categories Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 3.3.1, via the 'z_taxonomy_image' shortcode. 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