CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-10180

MediumCVSS 6.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.31%

22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Markdown Shortcode plugin for WordPress (all versions up to 0.2.1) is vulnerable to stored XSS via the 'markdown' shortcode. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping allow authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can inject malicious scripts that execute in browsers of users visiting infected pages, potentially leading to session theft or other attacks.

Recommendation

Update the Markdown Shortcode plugin to a version with security fixes, or remove it if not essential.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Markdown Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'markdown' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.1 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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS