Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Image Editor by Pixo Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-5588

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Image Editor By Pixo
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 June 2025

What is CVE-2025-5588?

The Image Editor by Pixo plugin for WordPress suffers from a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping in the 'download' parameter. This flaw allows authenticated users with Contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts. These scripts will execute whenever users visit pages affected by the injected content, posing a significant security risk to WordPress environments using this plugin.

Affected Version(s)

Image Editor by Pixo * <= 2.3.6

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/image-editor-b...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-editor-by-pixo/#devel...

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

Peter Thaleikis
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CVE-2025-5588 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Image Editor by Pixo Plugin for WordPress