High severity · published Oct 13, 2026
CVE-2026-102562
AcyMailing <= 11.1.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'customField[]' Parameter
7.2
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The AcyMailing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the customField[] parameter of the public frontusers::subscribe endpoint in versions up to, and including, 11.1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the acym_cleanVar() sanitizer, whose HTML-tag stripper only matches complete tags (requiring a closing '>'), together with SubscriberInsertion::replaceUserInformation() and the archive view template, which substitute the stored subscriber field value into the mail body and emit it without HTML encoding. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the online-archive URL for the poisoned subscriber, including administrators who click the plugin-generated link in the Subscribers → History screen.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 16% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AA
AcyMailing – An Ultimate Newsletter Plugin and Marketing Automation Solution for WordPress · acyba
through 11.1.0 · source: vendor
Affected product
AA
AcyMailing – An Ultimate Newsletter Plugin and Marketing Automation Solution for WordPress
acyba
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102562
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-102562
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eb8f03fb-d1af-4727-87d7-58dbe4013d8a?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/front/FrontViews/Archive/tmpl/view.php#L17
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/back/dynamics/subscriber/SubscriberInsertion.php#L159
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/back/Classes/FieldClass.php#L292
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/back/Core/wordpress/security.php#L122
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acymailing/tags/11.1.0/back/Classes/UserClass.php#L1187
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