CVE-2026-16091

Description

The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gamipress_rank' Shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.9.9.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d9f257a9-d447-407c-83ae-3cc99254be3f?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3619577%40gamipress&new=3619577%40gamipress

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/templates/rank.php#L162

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/template-functions.php#L74

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/shortcodes/gamipress_rank.php#L203

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/shortcodes/gamipress_rank.php#L197

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/tags/7.9.9/includes/filters.php#L1899

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3