PT-2025-51188 · WordPress · Lightweight Accordion

CVE-2025-13740 · Published 2025-12-15 · Updated 2025-12-15

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 Lightweight Accordion plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.5.21

Description The Lightweight Accordion plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the plugin’s lightweight-accordion shortcode. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations Update the Lightweight Accordion plugin to version 1.5.21 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-13740

Affected Products

Lightweight Accordion

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13740 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2000611235168194968 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/2000428290494885890 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/39796 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f117f713-e2f1-4803-87f7-14b1576d823b?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3413649 · Note