PT-2026-8050 · WordPress · Personal-Authors-Category

Abdulsamad Yusuf · Published 2026-02-14 · Updated 2026-02-14 · CVE-2026-1754

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions personal-authors-category plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 0.3

Description The personal-authors-category plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting through the URL path. This is due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping. An unauthenticated attacker could inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which would execute if a user is tricked into performing an action, such as clicking a link.

Recommendations Update the personal-authors-category plugin to a version newer than 0.3.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-1754

Affected Products

Personal-Authors-Category

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1754 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2022543943993348508 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/152020 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/personal-authors-category/trunk/personal-authors-category.php#L233 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/2022576256789762065 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/44688 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f57d5ec-bc2d-4dc4-b1b2-c5919986d198?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEarity/status/2022659894135132523 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/personal-authors-category/trunk/personal-authors-category.php#L169 · Note