Gravatar Enhanced <= 0.13.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Gravatar Profile Block Attributes
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1189
- Plugin
- Gravatar Enhanced – Avatars, Profiles, and Privacy (gravatar-enhanced)
- Affected
- from 0.3.0 before 0.14.0
- Remediation
- Update to 0.14.0 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Medium among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-17
- Attack surface
- Gravatar Enhanced on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Gravatar Enhanced plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Gravatar Profile block's 'placeholderProfile' attribute in all versions up to, and including, 0.13.1, due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. The block's server-side renderer passes the whole attribute (including fields such as profile_url, avatar_url and verified_accounts) to the front-end script. The script then inserts these values into innerHTML without escaping attribute values or restricting URL schemes. 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.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1189/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gravatar-enhanced/tags/0.14.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravatar-enhanced/
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