Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 24, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-14797
CVE-2025-14797
Description
The Same Category Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the widget title placeholder functionality in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.19. This is due to the use of htmlspecialchars_decode() on taxonomy term names before output, which decodes HTML entities that WordPress intentionally encodes for safety. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Affected products
1- Range: <= 1.1.19
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/same-category-posts/tags/1.1.19/same-category-posts.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/same-category-posts/tags/1.1.19/same-category-posts.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/same-category-posts/tags/1.1.19/same-category-posts.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/70434876-4876-4da8-9af1-6f6ef5632f26nvd
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