Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Vertical Scroll Image Slideshow Gallery by WordPress
CVE-2025-5752

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Vertical Scroll Image Slideshow Gallery
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 July 2025

What is CVE-2025-5752?

The Vertical Scroll Image Slideshow Gallery plugin for WordPress is prone to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping in the ‘width’ parameter. This flaw allows authenticated attackers, including users with Contributor-level access, to inject malicious scripts that execute when other users view affected pages.

Affected Version(s)

Vertical scroll image slideshow gallery * <= 11.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vertical-scrol...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/vertical-scroll-image-slide...

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-2025-5752 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Vertical Scroll Image Slideshow Gallery by WordPress