CVE-2025-14143
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
12/12/2025
Last modified:
12/12/2025
Description
The Ayo Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'color' parameter of the ayo_action shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.2 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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ayo-shortcodes/tags/0.2/includes/ayo-shortcodes-functions.php#L55
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ayo-shortcodes/tags/0.2/includes/ayo-shortcodes-functions.php#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ayo-shortcodes/trunk/includes/ayo-shortcodes-functions.php#L55
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ayo-shortcodes/trunk/includes/ayo-shortcodes-functions.php#L66
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1760fe6e-8153-4479-ae32-2e2f0fa54e12?source=cve



