CVE-2025-46263

WordPress Author Box After Posts plugin <= 1.6 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: May 19, 2025
Updated: Apr 28, 2026
Reserved: Apr 22, 2025

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Lloyd Saunders Author Box After Posts author-box-after-posts allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Author Box After Posts: from n/a through <= 1.6.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L	Patchstack

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Author Box After PostsLloyd Saunders	1.6 and earlierAffected

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/author-box-after-posts/vulnerability/wordpress-author-box-after-posts-plugin-1-6-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cvevdb-entry

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