PT-2025-26917 · WordPress · Gc Social Wall

Muhammad Yudha · Published 2025-06-26 · Updated 2025-06-26 · CVE-2025-5564

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: GC Social Wall plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.15

Description: The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'gc social wall' 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 GC Social Wall plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.15, consider disabling the gc social wall 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 the gc social wall shortcode with user-supplied attributes until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-5564

Affected Products

Gc Social Wall

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5564 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cfe548ce-5dc9-4073-b755-d28e37720808?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gc-social-wall/trunk/GCSocialWall.php · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1938081854621462581 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvetracker/27081 · Telegram Post