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Description

The WP BookWidgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'bw_link' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.9 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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-09-08 | Published 2025-10-15 | Updated 2025-10-15 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 6.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

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affected

Timeline

2025-10-14:Disclosed

Credits

Djaidja Moundjid finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-8259-40fb-bc9b-53e3dfef8816?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...dgets/trunk/wp-bookwidgets.php

wordpress.org/plugins/wp-bookwidgets

cve.org (CVE-2025-10139)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-10139)

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