Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in ESV Bible Shortcode for WordPress
CVE-2025-5534
6.4MEDIUM
Key Information:
- Vendor
WordPress
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 6 June 2025
What is CVE-2025-5534?
The ESV Bible Shortcode for WordPress plugin allows authenticated users with contributor-level access and above to exploit a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. This flaw arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'esv' shortcode. Attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, leading to potential data theft or website compromise when users visit affected pages.
Affected Version(s)
ESV Bible Shortcode for WordPress * <= 1.0.2