Medium severity · published Oct 28, 2026
CVE-2026-100175
Postie <= 1.9.87 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Email Body URL Autolink
New
5.4
CVSS
–
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Postie plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Email Body URL Autolink in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.87 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. This is possible because the ?postie=get-mail endpoint is reachable by unauthenticated users with no capability check, and the email processing path removes WordPress's kses output filters before saving raw markup, allowing the unescaped href attribute value to be stored as post content.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PO
Postie · wayneallen-1
through 1.9.87 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-100175
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-100175
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5b7d5d53-51a0-4d45-a180-0bde9edd8f4c?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/postie/tags/1.9.87/lib/autolink.php#L220
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/postie/tags/1.9.87/lib/autolink.php#L136
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/postie/tags/1.9.87/lib/autolink.php#L129
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/postie/tags/1.9.87/postie-filters.php#L475
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/postie/tags/1.9.87/postie-message.php#L607
