WP Publication Archive
WP Publication Archive has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it remains unpatched as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for WP Publication Archive has no published fix yet, which makes virtual patching the only reliable mitigation. The oldest unresolved one dates back to 2025.
All of these findings were reported by theviper17y. WP Publication Archive is installed on roughly 400 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 3.6.1.
CVE-2025-58826WP Publication Archive <= 3.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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WP Publication Archive
Author
Eric Mann
WP Publication Archive adds a custom content type for storing, tagging, and categorizing downloadable content external to standard WordPress posts and pages. You can add downloadable PDF files, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations. These files will be stored in the standard WordPress uploads directory but will be managed separately through a custom post type interface in the WordPress admin area. Licenses WP Publication Archive is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. This system was based on the original wp-publications-archive plug-in published by Luis Lino and Siemens Networks, S.A. at http://code.google.com/p/wp-publications-archive/. The filing cabinet menu icon was created by Glyphish (http://glyphish.com) and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Filetype icons come from the Crystal Project (http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/) released under the LGPL (http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=license).
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