Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Nov 27, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-13525
CVE-2025-13525
Description
The WP Directory Kit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'order_by' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=1.4.5
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpdirectorykit/tags/1.4.4/application/views/wdk_messages/index.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpdirectorykit/tags/1.4.4/application/views/wdk_messages/index.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- wordpress.org/plugins/wpdirectorykit/nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01cd3631-93fb-4016-baa4-8ea11b21acecnvd
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