CVE-2026-16090: The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'heading_size'
The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'heading_size' Shortcode Attribute in 'gamipress_achievement' 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. WordPress save-time wp_kses_post does not neutralize this payload because the injected value is stored inside a shortcode attribute rather than as a raw HTML tag, and is only emitted into HTML at render time without escaping.
Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16090
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-16090 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for GamiPress
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- mediumCVE-2026-16091: The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPres…nvd · 2026-08-01
- mediumCVE-2026-15730: The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPres…nvd · 2026-07-28
- criticalCVE-2026-59538: Unauthenticated SQL Injection in GamiPress <= 7.9.7 versions.nvd · 2026-07-27
- mediumCVE-2026-13450: The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPres…nvd · 2026-07-09
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