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Description

The Widget Options - Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'do_sidebar' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.1 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 2025-08-12 | Published 2025-09-23 | Updated 2025-09-23 | 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

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-08-14:Vendor Notified
2025-09-22:Disclosed

Credits

Matthew Rollings finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-b0b8-4e11-b789-bed3bd257a10?source=cve

widget-options.com/changelog/

cve.org (CVE-2025-8902)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-8902)

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