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CVE-2025-5565:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Hide It plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-5565) affecting all versions up to and including 1.0.1. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on June 5, 2025, and received a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.4 (Medium). The issue affects the plugin's 'hideit' shortcode functionality (NVD, Wiz).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'hideit' shortcode. The plugin allows users to toggle visibility of objects within posts or pages using shortcodes and CSS class name or id attribute selectors. The CVSS vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity (NVD, WordPress Plugin).
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 compromised page, potentially leading to data theft, session hijacking, or other client-side attacks (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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