Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-4567

CVE-2025-4567:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Post Slider and Post Carousel with Post Vertical Scrolling Widget WordPress plugin before version 3.2.10 contains a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on May 13, 2025, and was assigned CVE-2025-4567 (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation and output escaping of Widget options before they are output back in pages or posts where the block is embedded. The issue affects the plugin's Widget options functionality, specifically in the Query Offset field of the PSAC - Post Vertical Slider Widget (WPScan).

Impact

This vulnerability allows authenticated users with contributor-level access and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. When exploited, the attacker can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the injected page (CVE).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.2.10 of the Post Slider and Post Carousel with Post Vertical Scrolling Widget plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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