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Description

The Optio Dentistry plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'optio-lightbox' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.2 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 2025-09-02 | Published 2025-09-06 | Updated 2025-09-08 | 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

2025-09-03:Vendor Notified
2025-09-05:Disclosed

Credits

Jonas Benjamin Friedli finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-cd19-469e-8a73-fd933752d03c?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...y/tags/2.2/optio-dentistry.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...entistry&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2025-9853)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-9853)

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