CWE-80
Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
VariantIncompleteLikelihood: High
Description
The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages.
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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-18 · CAPEC-193 · CAPEC-32 · CAPEC-86
CVEs mapped to this weakness (163)
page 3 of 9| CVE | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-11745 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Nov 5, 2025 | The Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via custom field through the plugin's 'adinserter' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7 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. | |
| CVE-2025-11987 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Nov 5, 2025 | The Visual Link Preview plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's visual-link-preview shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.2.7 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. | |
| CVE-2025-11241 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Oct 3, 2025 | The Yoast SEO Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions 25.7 to 25.9 due to a flawed regex used to remove an attribute in post content, which can be abused to inject arbitrary HTML attributes, including JavaScript event handlers. This vulnerability allows a user with Contributor access or higher to create a post containing a malicious JavaScript payload. | |
| CVE-2025-10128 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Sep 30, 2025 | The Eulerpool Research Systems plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'aaq' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.1 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. | |
| CVE-2025-10125 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Sep 17, 2025 | The Memberlite Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugins's 'row' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.4 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. | |
| CVE-2025-8621 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Aug 12, 2025 | The Mosaic Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘c’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5 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. | |
| CVE-2025-5686 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Jun 6, 2025 | The Paged Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'gallery' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.7 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. | |
| CVE-2025-4126 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | May 15, 2025 | The EG-Series plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's [series] shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes in the shortcode_title function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers - with contributor-level access and above, on sites with the Classic Editor plugin activated - to inject arbitrary JavaScript code in the titletag attribute that will execute whenever a user access an injected page. | |
| CVE-2025-4168 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | May 3, 2025 | The Subpage List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'subpages' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.3 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. | |
| CVE-2025-3521 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | May 1, 2025 | The Team Members – Best WordPress Team Plugin with Team Slider, Team Showcase & Team Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social Link icons in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 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. | |
| CVE-2025-39524 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Apr 16, 2025 | Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in bPlugins Html5 Audio Player html5-audio-player allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Html5 Audio Player: from n/a through <= 2.2.28. | |
| CVE-2025-31604 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Mar 31, 2025 | Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in Cal.com Cal.com cal-com allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Cal.com: from n/a through <= 1.0.0. | |
| CVE-2025-31075 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Mar 28, 2025 | Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in videowhisper MicroPayments paid-membership allows Stored XSS.This issue affects MicroPayments: from n/a through <= 2.9.29. | |
| CVE-2025-24678 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jan 24, 2025 | Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in listamester Listamester listamester allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Listamester: from n/a through <= 2.3.4. | |
| CVE-2025-24673 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jan 24, 2025 | Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in AyeCode Ketchup Shortcodes ketchup-shortcodes-pack allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Ketchup Shortcodes: from n/a through <= 0.1.2. | |
| CVE-2024-10621 | Med | 0.42 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Nov 8, 2024 | The Simple Shortcode for Google Maps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's pw_map shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.4 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. | |
| CVE-2023-49852 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jun 4, 2024 | Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in Vsourz Digital Responsive Slick Slider WordPress allows Code Injection.This issue affects Responsive Slick Slider WordPress: from n/a through 1.4. | |
| CVE-2026-42451 | Med | 0.41 | 6.3 | 0.00 | May 8, 2026 | Grimmory is a self-hosted digital library. Prior to version 2.3.1, a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Grimmory's browser-based EPUB reader allows an attacker to embed arbitrary JavaScript in a crafted EPUB file. When a victim opens the book, the script executes in their browser with full access to the Grimmory application's session context. This can enable session token theft and account takeover, including administrative access if an administrator opens the affected book. This issue has been patched in version 2.3.1. | |
| CVE-2025-58970 | Med | 0.41 | 6.3 | 0.00 | Oct 22, 2025 | Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in AmentoTech Doctreat doctreat allows Code Injection.This issue affects Doctreat: from n/a through <= 1.6.7. | |
| CVE-2025-15345 | Med | 0.40 | 6.1 | 0.00 | May 14, 2026 | The MapGeo – Interactive Geo Maps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'map' parameter in the display-map shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.27 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. |