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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-11745
CVE-2025-11745:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-11745) in versions up to and including 2.8.7. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on November 4, 2025, affecting the plugin's 'adinserter' shortcode functionality (NVD CVE).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'adinserter' shortcode. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-80: Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) (Wordfence Report).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an affected page, potentially compromising the security of site visitors (NVD CVE).
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Source: This report was generated using AI
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