CVE-2025-14132 (GCVE-0-2025-14132)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-12 03:20 – Updated: 2025-12-18 20:37
VLAI?
Title
Category Dropdown List <= 1.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']
Summary
The Category Dropdown List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the `$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']` variable in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pandikamal03 Category Dropdown List Affected: * , ≤ 1.0 (semver)
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Credits
Abdulsamad Yusuf
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