CVE-2026-9833: Unknown Tag Groups Is The Advanced Way To Display Your Taxonomy Terms

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Unknown Tag Groups Is The Advanced Way To Display Your Taxonomy Terms: before 2.2.0 (fixed in 2.2.0)

Published 2026-07-20. Last modified 2026-07-20.