Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-96564 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-96564 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-96564?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.2, published 3 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- SEOPress up to and including 10.2.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-96564?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-96564 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-96564?
- Check whether you run SEOPress at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in the author display name handling, occurring due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in Google Analytics 4 and Matomo integration code. An unauthenticated attacker must be able to publish public singular content (e.g., via bbPress forums) with a crafted display name that gets rendered unsanitized in the analytics tracking script when "Track Authors" is configured.
Affected products
- SEOPress SEOPress up to and including 10.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-03: disclosed