PT-2025-36363 · WordPress · Admin Menu Editor

Dj + 1 · Published 2025-09-06 · Updated 2025-09-06 · CVE-2025-9493

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:

Admin Menu Editor plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.15

Description:

The Admin Menu Editor plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `placeholder` parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows authenticated attackers with Author-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations:

Update the Admin Menu Editor plugin to version 1.15 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-9493

Affected Products

Admin Menu Editor

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9493 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1964195389990724035 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1964183567161827624 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-menu-editor/tags/1.14/includes/shortcodes.php#L42 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-editor · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3353790%40admin-menu-editor&old=3329611%40admin-menu-editor&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file857 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/69b9d4e1-895b-4199-bc4e-489afd9d36eb?source=cve · Note