Stored Cross-Site Scripting in BNS Featured Category Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-5538

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Bns Featured Category
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 June 2025

What is CVE-2025-5538?

The BNS Featured Category plugin for WordPress has a vulnerability that allows authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping in the 'bnsfc' shortcode. Attackers can inject malicious scripts into pages, which are executed when a user visits an affected page, posing significant risks to user data and site integrity.

Affected Version(s)

BNS Featured Category * <= 2.8.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bns-featured-c...

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

muhammad yudha
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CVE-2025-5538 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting in BNS Featured Category Plugin for WordPress