Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Ultimate Dashboard WordPress Plugin
CVE-2025-1524
Key Information:
- Vendor
WordPress
- Status
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 17 April 2025
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What is CVE-2025-1524?
The Ultimate Dashboard plugin for WordPress, prior to version 3.8.6, is susceptible to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability due to inadequate sanitization and escaping of various settings. This flaw allows high privilege users, including administrators, to exploit the system and execute malicious scripts. Notably, this vulnerability can be exploited even when the unfiltered_html capability is turned off, such as in multisite configurations, posing significant security risks to websites utilizing the plugin.

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Affected Version(s)
Ultimate Dashboard 0 < 3.8.6
Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)
PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.
References
CVSS V3.1
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Exploit known to exist
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved