CVE-2025-9857
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
10/09/2025
Last modified:
11/09/2025
Description
The Heateor Login – Social Login Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'Heateor_Facebook_Login' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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/heateor-login/tags/1.1.9/shortcode.php#L24
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3357088%40heateor-login&new=3357088%40heateor-login
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d106d581-d711-44ac-b85a-c43aad727eeb?source=cve