CVE-2025-26881
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in bPlugins Sticky Content WordPress plugin affecting versions through 1.0.1. The vulnerability was identified on February 22, 2025, by security researcher Logan Cote (Wordfence, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2025-26881 and received a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium), with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The issue is classified as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with Contributor or higher privileges to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 1.0.2 of the Sticky Content plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.0.2 or later to remediate the security issue (Patchstack).

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