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

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 · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9493 · Security Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/31865 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1964195389990724035 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-menu-editor/tags/1.14/includes/shortcodes.php#L42 · 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://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-editor · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1964183567161827624 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/69b9d4e1-895b-4199-bc4e-489afd9d36eb?source=cve · Note