Vulnerabilities and security researches forvertical-response-newsletter-widget vertical-response-newsletter-widget

May 04, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-4172
Home page URL: Security reports for VerticalResponse Newsletter Widget
Application: VerticalResponse Newsletter Widget
Date: May 03, 2025
Research Description: The VerticalResponse Newsletter Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'verticalresponse' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.6 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable