CVE-2025-5524: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The OceanWP theme for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-5524) discovered on June 18, 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 4.0.9, specifically in the Select HTML tag functionality. This security issue was identified and reported by Wordfence (Wordfence Report, NVD).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.9 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The security flaw stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Select HTML tag implementation (NVD, Wiz).

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 compromising the security of site visitors (NVD).

The vulnerability has been patched in OceanWP version 4.1.0, released on June 17, 2025. Users are strongly advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (WordPress Themes).