Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-4169

CVE-2025-4169:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Posts per Cat WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 1.4.2) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-4169). The vulnerability exists in the plugin's 'ppc' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This security issue was discovered and disclosed on May 15, 2025 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium). The attack vector requires an authenticated user with contributor-level access or higher privileges. The vulnerability stems from inadequate sanitization of user input in the plugin's 'ppc' shortcode functionality (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this 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 leading to unauthorized actions and data theft (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

A fix has been released in version 1.5.0 of the Posts per Cat plugin, which includes security improvements and cleanup. Users are advised to update to this latest version to protect against the vulnerability (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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