CVE-2026-85653: Ajay Contextual Related Posts

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Contextual Related Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'other_attributes' Block Parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Ajay Contextual Related Posts: up to and including 4.4.1

Published 2026-09-22. Last modified 2026-09-22.