Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in GC Social Wall Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-5564

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Gc Social Wall
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 June 2025

What is CVE-2025-5564?

The GC Social Wall plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability that allows for Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the 'gc_social_wall' shortcode. This flaw arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary web scripts into the pages. As a result, any user accessing such altered pages may unwittingly execute the malicious code, which poses serious security risks to website integrity and user data.

Affected Version(s)

GC Social Wall * <= 1.15

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gc-social-wall/trunk/GC...

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-2025-5564 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in GC Social Wall Plugin for WordPress