{"id":"CVE-2025-13969","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-13969","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:47:23.862Z","title":"The Reviews Sorted plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'space' parameter of the [reviews-slider] shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping.","description":"The Reviews Sorted plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'space' parameter of the [reviews-slider] shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.","published":"2025-12-12T04:15:45.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-07T20:10:02.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00354,"percentile":0.28919,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.35%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/functions/do.php#L138","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/templates/reviews-slider-1.php#L30","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/templates/reviews-slider-2.php#L23","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/templates/reviews-slider-3.php#L23","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/tags/2.4.2/templates/reviews-slider.php#L23","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/functions/do.php#L138","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/templates/reviews-slider-1.php#L30","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/templates/reviews-slider-2.php#L23","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/templates/reviews-slider-3.php#L23","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-sorted/trunk/templates/reviews-slider.php#L23","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/74e790e7-60fd-45cd-942f-0f24365d7fc8?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13969","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}