PT-2025-36354 · WordPress · Optio Dentistry

Jonas Benjamin Friedli · Published 2025-09-06 · Updated 2025-09-06 · CVE-2025-9853

Positive Technologies · (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

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:

Optio Dentistry plugin for WordPress versions prior to 2.3

Description:

The plugin is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `optio-lightbox` shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which will execute when a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations:

Update to version 2.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-9853

Affected Products

Optio Dentistry

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9853 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/optio-dentistry/tags/2.2/optio-dentistry.php#L92 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3355511%40optio-dentistry&new=3355511%40optio-dentistry&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/31847 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c1fda48e-cd19-469e-8a73-fd933752d03c?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1964195396881961263 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1964206606230446504 · Twitter Post