{"id":"CVE-2025-8690","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-8690","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:52:14.299Z","title":"The Simple Responsive Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping.","description":"The Simple Responsive Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 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":"2025-08-12T03:15:30.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:07:27.000Z","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":0.00265,"percentile":0.18235,"date":"2026-10-26","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 (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/addi-simple-slider/tags/2.0/methods.php","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/addi-simple-slider/#developers","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7888aedb-5421-4c3a-8459-d6177b398a06?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8690","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."}