Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Web-Cam Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-6540

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Web-cam
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 June 2025

What is CVE-2025-6540?

The Web-Cam plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to a lack of proper input sanitization and output escaping in the 'slug' parameter. This vulnerability permits authenticated contributors and above to inject malicious web scripts into pages. When a user accesses a compromised page, the injected scripts will execute, potentially compromising user data and site integrity.

Affected Version(s)

web-cam * <= 1.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-cam/#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

Gilang Asra Bilhadi
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CVE-2025-6540 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Web-Cam Plugin for WordPress