Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Widget Options Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-8902
6.4MEDIUM
Key Information:
- Vendor
WordPress
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 23 September 2025
What is CVE-2025-8902?
The Widget Options - Extended plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'do_sidebar' shortcode. This vulnerability arises from a lack of adequate input sanitization and output escaping for user-supplied attributes. As a result, this flaw allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages, which will execute whenever a user accesses the affected page. It poses a serious risk as it can compromise user data and site integrity.
Affected Version(s)
Widget Options - Extended * <= 5.2.1