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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-5686
CVE-2025-5686:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Paged Gallery plugin for WordPress has been identified with a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-5686), affecting all versions up to and including 0.7. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by researcher muhammad yudha, with the initial disclosure made on June 5, 2025. The issue was officially published to the CVE List on June 6, 2025 (CVE MITRE, NVD NIST).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'gallery' shortcode. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The weakness has been categorized as CWE-80: Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) (Wordfence).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever any user accesses the compromised page, potentially leading to unauthorized access to user data, session hijacking, or other malicious activities (NVD NIST).
Additional resources
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