WP Posts Carousel, CVE-2025-1491

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-1491
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Posts Carousel
Application: WP Posts Carousel
Published on: Mar 01, 2025
Research Description: The WP Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘auto_play_timeout’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.7 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 1.3.8.
Status: vulnerable