CVE-2025-5337
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
14/06/2025
Last modified:
09/07/2025
Description
The Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘aria-label’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.98.0 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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
CPE | From | Up to |
---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:metaslider:slider\,_gallery\,_and_carousel:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 3.99.0 (excluding) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ml-slider/tags/3.98.0/assets/metaslider/script.js#L11
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3309932/ml-slider/tags/3.99.0/assets/metaslider/script.js
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/ml-slider/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e6492e5-a506-4d77-96d2-08f700b6ee76?source=cve