Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-5236

CVE-2025-5236:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The NinjaTeam Chat for Telegram plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-5236) in versions up to and including 1.1. The vulnerability was discovered on May 26, 2025, and was patched in version 1.2 released on May 29, 2025. The issue affects the 'username' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping (NVD, CVE).

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 is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). The scope is changed (S:C) with low impacts on both confidentiality and integrity (C:L, I:L) and no impact on availability (A:N) (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 the affected pages, potentially leading to theft of sensitive information or manipulation of page content (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to version 1.2 of the NinjaTeam Chat for Telegram plugin, which includes a fix for this vulnerability. The patch was released on May 29, 2025, and implements proper sanitization and escaping of the username parameter (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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