Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in ST Categories Widget for WordPress
CVE-2025-11878

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
St Categories Widget
Vendor
CVE Published:
22 October 2025

What is CVE-2025-11878?

The ST Categories Widget plugin for WordPress is susceptible to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes within its st-categories shortcode. This vulnerability allows authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts into pages. Upon access, these scripts can be executed in the context of other users, potentially compromising their security and privacy.

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Affected Version(s)

ST Categories Widget * <= 1.0.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/st-category-wp...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Gilang Asra Bilhadi
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