Description
The Speed Optimizer WordPress plugin before 7.8.5 does not sanitise or escape some of its settings before outputting them in the head of front-end pages, which could allow high-privilege users such as admins to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in a multisite setup).
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Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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3.5
LOW
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 8 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-79
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