CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-11827

MediumCVSS 6.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Oboxmedia Ads plugin for WordPress (all versions up to and including 1.9.8) is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'before_widget' and 'after_widget' parameters of the oboxads-ad-widget shortcode. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping.

Risk Assessment

An authenticated attacker with contributor-level access or higher can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that execute whenever a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendation

Update the Oboxmedia Ads plugin to the latest version that fixes this vulnerability. If updating is not possible, consider disabling the plugin.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Oboxmedia Ads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'before_widget' and 'after_widget' parameters of the oboxads-ad-widget shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8. This is 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.

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