Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Affiliate Reviews Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-5845

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Affiliate Reviews
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 July 2025

What is CVE-2025-5845?

The Affiliate Reviews plugin for WordPress suffers from a vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts via the ‘numColumns’ parameter. This is due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping measures in versions up to and including 1.0.6. Attackers with Contributor-level access and above can exploit this flaw to manipulate pages viewed by users, leading to potential execution of malicious scripts.

Affected Version(s)

Affiliate Reviews * <= 1.0.6

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/affiliate-revi...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/affiliate-reviews/#developers

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-2025-5845 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Affiliate Reviews Plugin for WordPress