CVE-2025-1491 Information

Description

The WP Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘auto_play_timeout’ parameter in all versions up to and including 1.3.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3248502/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-posts-carousel/#developers https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f708c72-7ce2-4eb0-869b-cec4613f6f3f?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.4