Generic Elements, CVE-2025-9080

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-9080
Home page URL: Security reports for Generic Elements
Application: Generic Elements
Published on: Oct 03, 2025
Research Description: The Generic Elements plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple widget fields in version 1.2.8 and earlier. This is 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: max 1.2.8.
Status: vulnerable