CVE-2025-4100: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Nautic Pages plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-4100) discovered on May 1, 2025. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 2.0 of the plugin. The issue exists in the plugin's 'npmarinetrafficmap' shortcode functionality due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD Database).

The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium), vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability stems from improper handling of user input in the 'npmarinetrafficmap' shortcode parameters, where insufficient sanitization and escaping of attributes allows for injection of malicious scripts (NVD Database, Wiz Analysis).

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These injected scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page, potentially leading to theft of sensitive information or manipulation of page content (NVD Database).

Users should update to a version newer than 2.0 once available. Until then, it is recommended to restrict access to the plugin's functionality to trusted users only and carefully monitor any content created using the 'npmarinetrafficmap' shortcode (Wiz Analysis).