PT-2025-22339 · WordPress · Animated Buttons

Published 2025-05-21 · Updated 2025-05-21 · CVE-2025-4221

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 Animated Buttons plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.0.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'auto-downloader' 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 versions up to, and including, 1.0.0, consider disabling the 'auto-downloader' shortcode until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Restrict access to pages that use this shortcode to minimize the risk of arbitrary web script execution. Avoid using user-supplied attributes in the 'auto-downloader' shortcode until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-4221

Affected Products

Animated Buttons

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4221 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e778399f-f7fe-47c5-9722-b833d78f475c?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-buttons/trunk/Animated_Buttons.php#L52 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1925123624446652490 · Twitter Post