CVE-2025-10165

Summary

The AP Background plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'adv_parallax_back' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-79: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f98b848c-9f97-4d00-97de-7651b9035731?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ap-background/trunk/includes/shortCodeClass.php#L44
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/ap-background

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