CVE-2025-11874
BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-11-11
Last updated on: 2025-11-12
Assigner: Wordfence
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| wordfence | slippy_slider | 2.0 |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-80 | The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. |
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AI Powered Q&A
Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
The Slippy Slider plugin for WordPress has a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in its 'slippy-slider' shortcode. This occurs because the plugin does not properly sanitize or escape user-supplied attributes, allowing authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts. These scripts execute whenever any user views the affected page.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
This vulnerability can allow attackers with contributor-level access to inject malicious scripts into pages, which will execute in the browsers of users who visit those pages. This can lead to theft of user credentials, session hijacking, defacement, or other malicious actions performed in the context of the affected website.