CVE-2025-1491
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Mar 1, 2025
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2025-1491 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the WP Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in versions up to 1.3.7, allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts. The 'auto_play_timeout' parameter is the point of entry, which fails to undergo sufficient input sanitization and output escaping, making the pages vulnerable to execution of these scripts whenever they are accessed.
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