XSS in Rainbowgeek Seopress – Ai Seo Plugin & On-Site
CVE-2026-116535
The SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 10.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is exploitable by any Subscriber who sets their display_name to a string containing the literal %%archive_title%% token alongside HTML event-handler payloads, as WordPress stores display names without HTML filtering and the plugin substitutes the token after escaping has already occurred.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.002 (14.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 14th percentile — 14.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
The 30-day trend appears once there are two daily scores.
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6651c932-aa60-485b-bb5b-b66d5…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-seopress/tags/10.3/inc/functions/options-…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-seopress/tags/10.3/inc/functions/options-…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-seopress/tags/10.3/inc/functions/options-…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-seopress/tags/10.3/inc/functions/options-…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-seopress/tags/10.3/inc/functions/variable…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-seopress/tags/10.3/inc/functions/options-…
- plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-seopress/trunk/
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3772366/wp-seopress/trunk/inc/functions/op…
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-116535?
- CVE-2026-116535 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rainbowgeek Seopress – Ai Seo Plugin & On-Site, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2026-10-31.
- How severe is CVE-2026-116535?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.