CVE-2025-4666 Information

Description

The Zotpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘nickname’ parameter in all versions up to and including 7.3.15 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.

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/browser/zotpress/trunk/lib/admin/admin.accounts.php#L86 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zotpress/trunk/lib/admin/admin.functions.php#L66 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zotpress/trunk/lib/admin/admin.options.form.php#L33 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zotpress/trunk/lib/admin/admin.options.form.php#L35 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1058078b-3afa-4fe7-913a-b6fc32252bf6?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