Stored cross-site scripting in WP Customer Area WordPress plugin
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The WP Customer Area plugin for WordPress by aguilatechnologies is affected in all versions up to and including 8.4.0. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the display_name parameter enables stored cross-site scripting (CWE-79). An authenticated attacker with subscriber-level access or higher can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
Description from the CNA
The WP Customer Area plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 8.4.0 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aguilatechnologies | WP Customer Area | up to 8.4.0 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- WP Customer Area Vendoraguilatechnologies Affected up to 8.4.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for WP Customer Area.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
Timeline
- 2026-11-06 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-116551
- 2026-11-06 Alias added: GHSA-hcq2-mw85-wh93
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-11-06 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
References
Other 9
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/676e563e-b89d-465c-912f-336a2157551a?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/log/log-table.class.php#L243
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/post-owner/templates/post-owner-link-usr.template.php#L24
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/log/log-addon.class.php#L415
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/post-owner/post-owner-user-owner-type.class.php#L86
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-classes/object-meta/storage/user-storage.class.php#L37
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/customer-account-edit/customer-account-edit-addon.class.php#L77
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3766831/customer-area
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3766832%40customer-area%2Ftags%2F8.4.1&old=3756151%40customer-area%2Ftags%2F8.4.0
More aguilatechnologies vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-02984 WP Customer Area <= 8.3.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read/Deletion via ajax_attach_file CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-30920 WordPress WP Customer Area plugin <= 8.3.4 - Path Traversal vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2025-37567 WordPress WP Customer Area plugin <= 8.3.5 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-84982 Reflected XSS in WordPress WP Customer Area plugin CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-84979 Reflected cross-site scripting in WP Customer Area WordPress plugin CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-83313 Cross-site scripting in WordPress WP Customer Area plugin CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-116551 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-116551 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hcq2-mw85-wh93 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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