CVE-2025-14797

Description

The Same Category Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the widget title placeholder functionality in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.19. This is due to the use of `htmlspecialchars_decode()` on taxonomy term names before output, which decodes HTML entities that WordPress intentionally encodes for safety. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-16 | Published 2026-01-24 | Updated 2026-01-26 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

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

Product status

Timeline

Credits

Athiwat Tiprasaharn finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-4876-4da8-9af1-6f6ef5632f26?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...1.1.19/same-category-posts.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...1.1.19/same-category-posts.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...1.1.19/same-category-posts.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ry-posts&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2025-14797)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-14797)

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