CVE-2025-12379

Description

The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a combination of the 'tag' and ‘title_tag’ parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.17.13 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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-28 | Published 2026-01-10 | Updated 2026-01-10 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

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

Product status

Timeline

Credits

Abu Hurayra finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-692e-45a5-ac63-bcdd64a8bd8a?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...tor/widgets/heading-modern.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...tor/widgets/heading-modern.php

cve.org (CVE-2025-12379)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12379)

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