CVE-2026-2505 (GCVE-0-2026-2505)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-18 09:26
Modified
2026-04-20 13:46
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elzahlan Categories Images Version: 0    3.3.1
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