PT-2025-36364 · WordPress · Recent Posts Widget Extended

Dj + 1 · Published 2025-09-06 · Updated 2025-09-06 · CVE-2025-6757

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 Recent Posts Widget Extended plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 2.0.2

Description The Recent Posts Widget Extended plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the plugin’s rpwe shortcode. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes allows authenticated attackers with contributor-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 Recent Posts Widget Extended plugin to a version later than 2.0.2.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-6757

Affected Products

Recent Posts Widget Extended

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6757 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1964195386073268521 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3b70f48f-76a6-459c-8108-3ca008471534?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/31866 · Telegram Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/#developers · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/recent-posts-widget-extended/tags/2.0.2/includes/shortcode.php#L14 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/recent-posts-widget-extended/tags/2.0.2/includes/functions.php#L24 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1964296203819962490 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/134537 · Telegram Post