Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-2579

CVE-2025-2579:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Lottie Player plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-2579) affecting all versions up to and including 1.1.8. The vulnerability was discovered on April 23, 2025, and publicly disclosed on April 24, 2025. This security issue affects the WordPress plugin's file upload functionality (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the file upload functionality. 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-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (NVD, Wordfence).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Author-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the uploaded file, potentially compromising the security of site visitors (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was addressed in version 1.2.0 of the Lottie Player plugin, released on April 23, 2025, which removed the vulnerable mime types. Users are advised to update to this latest version to protect against potential attacks (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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