CVE-2025-5337

Description

The Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘aria-label’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.98.0 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 2025-05-29 | Published 2025-06-14 | Updated 2026-04-08 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

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

Product status

Timeline

Credits

Asaf Mozes finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-a506-4d77-96d2-08f700b6ee76?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/....0/assets/metaslider/script.js

wordpress.org/plugins/ml-slider/

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/....0/assets/metaslider/script.js

cve.org (CVE-2025-5337)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-5337)

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