Recent Posts Widget Extended, CVE-2025-6757

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-6757
Home page URL: Security reports for Recent Posts Widget Extended
Application: Recent Posts Widget Extended
Published on: Sep 06, 2025
Research Description: The Recent Posts Widget Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'rpwe' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max 2.0.2.
Status: vulnerable