CVE-2025-5291 (GCVE-0-2025-5291)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-17 11:23 – Updated: 2025-06-17 13:59
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Summary
The Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's masterslider_pb and ms_slide shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 3.10.8 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.
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
averta Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider Affected: * , ≤ 3.10.8 (semver)
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Credits
muhammad yudha
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