PT-2025-21597 · WordPress · Posts Per Cat

Muhammad Yudha · Published 2025-05-16 · Updated 2025-05-16 · CVE-2025-4169

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Posts per Cat plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.4.2

Description: The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ppc' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows 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.

Recommendations: For Posts per Cat plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.4.2, consider disabling the 'ppc' shortcode until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Restrict access to pages that use the 'ppc' shortcode to minimize the risk of arbitrary web script execution.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-4169

Affected Products

Posts Per Cat

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4169 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7eb60874-85c1-40a9-b19d-131c2c2d49ba?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/122469 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvetracker/23977 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1923235056300020186 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3292123%40posts-per-cat&new=3292123%40posts-per-cat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note