CVE-2026-81754

high

Description

The Vigilant – 100% Free Security Suite: Firewall, 2FA, Login, Headers, Scanner… plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User-Agent Header in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The malicious payload is delivered passively by any unauthenticated visitor who triggers a failed login attempt with a crafted User-Agent header, requiring no further interaction from the attacker once stored.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c483cdc5-56e4-4ee7-a782-0505816728ab?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3669625%40vigilante%2Ftrunk%2Fassets%2Fjs%2Fadmin.js&old=3667821%40vigilante%2Ftrunk%2Fassets%2Fjs%2Fadmin.js&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vigilante/tags/2.9.5/includes/class-login-security.php#L899

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vigilante/tags/2.9.5/includes/class-database.php#L639

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vigilante/tags/2.9.5/includes/class-database.php#L448

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vigilante/tags/2.9.5/assets/js/admin.js#L2778

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vigilante/tags/2.9.5/assets/js/admin.js#L1996

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-11

Updated: 2026-09-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00241