CVE-2026-56046
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedSubscriber Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in ListingPro <= 2.9.11 versions.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the ListingPro WordPress plugin affects subscriber-level users. The vulnerability exists in versions 2.9.11 and below, allowing authenticated subscribers to inject malicious scripts through vulnerable input fields.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm ListingPro plugin installation and versionIn WordPress admin dashboard, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins. Locate the ListingPro plugin and note the version number displayed. Alternatively, check the plugin's main PHP file header comment for the Version field.Affected if The installed version is 2.9.11 or lower.
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Identify active user roles on the siteNavigate to WordPress admin > Users > Users. Review the list of registered users and their assigned roles. Look specifically for accounts with the 'Subscriber' role.Affected if Any user account with the Subscriber role exists on the site.
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Verify subscriber-level capabilitiesNavigate to WordPress admin > Users > User Role Editor or similar role management tool if installed. Check if subscriber accounts have the ability to submit, edit, or modify any content types (posts, listings, reviews, or custom post types) that are handled by ListingPro.Affected if Subscriber role has permissions to create or edit content accessible to other users.
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Check for publicly accessible submission formsVisit the front-end of the website and locate any submission, listing, review, or lead generation forms that are accessible to unauthenticated or subscriber-level users. These are typically found at URLs containing /submit/, /add-listing/, /review/, or similar paths.Affected if Forms that accept user input are accessible to users with subscriber-level permissions.
If the ListingPro plugin version is 2.9.11 or below AND subscriber-level users exist with the ability to submit or edit content on the site, the environment is affected by this XSS vulnerability.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade ListingPro to a version newer than 2.9.11. If immediate upgrade is not possible, implement output encoding and input sanitization on all user-supplied data, particularly data accessible to subscriber-level users.
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- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-56046 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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