Description
The Posts Table with Search & Sort plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'date_format' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The payload bypasses wp_kses_post at save time because it contains no literal angle bracket characters; the malicious HTML tags are only reconstructed at render time, making this exploitable by Contributors who would ordinarily lack the unfiltered_html capability.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| barn2media | Posts Table with Search & Sort | <= 1.4.14 |
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posts-data-table/tags/1.4.14/src/Simple_Posts_Table.php#L338
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posts-data-table/tags/1.4.14/src/Simple_Posts_Table.php#L345
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posts-data-table/tags/1.4.14/src/Table_Shortcode.php#L33
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3780094/posts-data-table/trunk/src/Simple_Posts_Table.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ac45e56-606a-445f-84ec-349b68109065?source=cve
Timeline
- Published
- Nov 6, 2026
- Last modified
- Nov 6, 2026
- NVD status
- Deferred