CVE-2025-13682
BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-12-05
Last updated on: 2025-12-08
Assigner: Wordfence
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
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| wordpress | trail_manager | * |
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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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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
The Trail Manager plugin for WordPress has a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in versions up to 1.0.0. This occurs because the plugin does not properly sanitize input or escape output in admin settings. As a result, authenticated users with administrator-level permissions or higher can inject malicious scripts into pages. These scripts execute whenever a user accesses the affected page. This vulnerability specifically affects multi-site installations and installations where the unfiltered_html setting is disabled.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
This vulnerability can allow an attacker with administrator-level access to inject malicious scripts that execute in the context of other users visiting the injected pages. This can lead to theft of sensitive information, session hijacking, or performing actions on behalf of other users without their consent. Since it requires high privileges and affects multi-site or restricted HTML installations, the impact is limited but can still compromise site security and user data confidentiality.
What immediate steps should I take to mitigate this vulnerability?
To mitigate this vulnerability, immediately update the Trail Manager plugin to a version later than 1.0.0 once available. In the meantime, restrict administrator-level permissions to trusted users only, ensure that unfiltered_html is enabled if possible, and avoid using multi-site installations with this plugin until a fix is applied.