PT-2025-7515 · WordPress · Wp-Appbox

Krzysztof Zając · Published 2025-02-21 · Updated 2025-02-24 · CVE-2025-1489

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 WP-Appbox plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.5.4

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's appbox shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For WP-Appbox plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.5.4, update to a version higher than 4.5.4 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the appbox shortcode for users with contributor-level access and above until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-1489

Affected Products

Wp-Appbox

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1489 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3244084 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1489 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d58355d-2762-4ecc-aec2-52a1e3323017?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1892942592003784784 · Twitter Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-appbox/#developers · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/112347 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/18654 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1892898700327793033 · Twitter Post