CVE-2025-13969

Summary

The Reviews Sorted plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'space' parameter of the [reviews-slider] shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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/74e790e7-60fd-45cd-942f-0f24365d7fc8?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/functions/do.php#L138
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/functions/do.php#L138
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/templates/reviews-slider.php#L23
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/templates/reviews-slider.php#L23
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/templates/reviews-slider-1.php#L30
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/templates/reviews-slider-1.php#L30
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/templates/reviews-slider-2.php#L23
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/templates/reviews-slider-2.php#L23
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/templates/reviews-slider-3.php#L23
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/templates/reviews-slider-3.php#L23

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