Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in WP Customer Area Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2026-116551

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
WP Customer Area
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 November 2026

What is CVE-2026-116551?

The WP Customer Area plugin for WordPress suffers from a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue, which occurs due to inadequate input validation and output encoding of the 'display_name' parameter. This vulnerability allows authenticated users with subscriber-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts into pages. As a result, any user accessing an affected page may inadvertently execute arbitrary web scripts, leading to potential data compromise or site integrity issues.

Affected Version(s)

WP Customer Area 0 <= 8.4.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Kuba
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