CVE-2025-4611

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Description

The Slim SEO – Fast & Automated WordPress SEO Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's slim_seo_breadcrumbs shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.3 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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6318a1cf-716f-450c-a1c2-497de8095daa?source=cve

https://wordpress.org/plugins/slim-seo/#developers

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3296099/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slim-seo/tags/4.5.3/src/Breadcrumbs.php#L85

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slim-seo/tags/4.5.3/src/Breadcrumbs.php#L37

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slim-seo/tags/4.5.3/src/Breadcrumbs.php#L109

https://github.com/elightup/slim-seo/commit/b475dceff3a6bd94335d5a79eb12cdd92e2c8350

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-05-21

Updated: 2025-05-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00034