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Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider – Responsive WordPress Slideshows, CVE-2025-5337

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-5337

Published on
Jun 14, 2025
Research Description
The Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘aria-label’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.98.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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 3.99.0.
Status
vulnerable