PT-2025-26208 · WordPress · Oceanwp

Asaf Mozes · Published 2025-06-19 · Updated 2025-06-19 · CVE-2025-5524

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OceanWP theme for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.0.9

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Select HTML tag due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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 OceanWP theme for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.0.9, update to a version later than 4.0.9 to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-5524

Affected Products

Oceanwp

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5524 · Security Note
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/276114 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1935723259850620989 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvetracker/26555 · Telegram Post
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/oceanwp/4.0.9/assets/js/select.min.js · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/37b085f9-3b15-44aa-9ba0-de5321dfbce4?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/126154 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1935567968059945062 · Twitter Post