PT-2025-40467 · WordPress · Ap Background

Djaidja Moundjid · Published 2025-10-03 · Updated 2025-10-03 · CVE-2025-10165

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 AP Background plugin for WordPress versions prior to 3.8.3

Description The software contains a flaw that allows an attacker to inject malicious web scripts into pages. This is possible due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the 'adv parallax back' shortcode. An authenticated attacker with contributor-level access or higher can exploit this to execute arbitrary web scripts when a user accesses the affected page.

Recommendations Update the AP Background plugin to version 3.8.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-10165

Affected Products

Ap Background

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10165 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1974076240332996868 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f98b848c-9f97-4d00-97de-7651b9035731?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/137296 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ap-background/trunk/includes/shortCodeClass.php#L44 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/ap-background · Note