Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Mar 1, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-1491

Description

The WP Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘auto_play_timeout’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.7 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.

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Affected products

WordPress/Wp Posts Carouselreferences2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=1.3.7
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-posts-carousel

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3248502/nvd
wordpress.org/plugins/wp-posts-carousel/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f708c72-7ce2-4eb0-869b-cec4613f6f3fnvd

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