Admin Menu Editor, CVE-2025-9493

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-9493
Home page URL: Security reports for Admin Menu Editor
Application: Admin Menu Editor
Published on: Sep 06, 2025
Research Description: The Admin Menu Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘placeholder’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-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 1.14.1.
Status: vulnerable