CVE-2025-12510
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Publication date: 2025-12-06
Last updated on: 2025-12-08
Assigner: Wordfence
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| wordpress | wp-reviews-plugin-for-google | 13.2.5 |
| wordpress | wp-reviews-plugin-for-google | 13.2.4 |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-79 | The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. |
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AI Powered Q&A
Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
The Widgets for Google Reviews plugin for WordPress has a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in all versions up to and including 13.2.4. This occurs because the plugin does not properly sanitize or escape input and output of Google Reviews data it imports. As a result, an unauthenticated attacker can inject malicious web scripts into reviews on a connected Google Place, which will then execute in the WordPress admin panel and potentially on the frontend when users access those reviews.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
This vulnerability can allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary scripts within the WordPress admin panel and possibly on the frontend of the site. This can lead to unauthorized actions, data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the website. Because the attacker can inject scripts that run with the privileges of the admin user, it poses a significant security risk to the website and its users.
What immediate steps should I take to mitigate this vulnerability?
Update the Widgets for Google Reviews plugin for WordPress to version 13.2.5 or later, as this version includes a fix that improves sanitization of imported review texts by using WordPress's wp_kses_post() function to prevent stored cross-site scripting attacks. [2]