WP Directory Kit, CVE-2025-13525

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-13525
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Directory Kit
Application: WP Directory Kit
Published on: Nov 27, 2025
Research Description: The WP Directory Kit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'order_by' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected versions: max 1.4.6.
Status: vulnerable