WP Posts Carousel <= 1.3.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2025-31094
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published March 28, 2025
Last Updated April 2, 2025
Researcher astra.r3verii
Description

The WP Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.3.8 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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-posts-carousel (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.8
Patched Version
  • 1.3.9
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