Vulnerability · Published Jul 20, 2026 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2026-9833Tag Groups < 2.2.0 - Reflected XSS via 'tag_groups_task' Parameter

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity cross-site scripting in Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 45% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.1High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 55.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack tooling2Nuclei, Public PoC

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms	0 – before 2.2.0

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/75792c33-2d9d-46db-a98c-00ec40951099/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description