Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Ocean Extra Plugin for WordPress

CVE-2025-9499

What is CVE-2025-9499?

The Ocean Extra plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability that allows authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher to exploit stored cross-site scripting. This flaw arises from inadequate sanitization and escaping of user-supplied attributes in the oceanwp_library shortcode. Attackers can inject arbitrary scripts that execute when users visit the compromised pages, posing significant security risks to website integrity and user safety.

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