PT-2025-9079 · WordPress · Wow Entrance Effects

Zakaria · Published 2025-02-28 · Updated 2025-02-28 · CVE-2025-1560

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 WOW Entrance Effects (WEE!) plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.1

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'wee' shortcode, allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. These scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For WOW Entrance Effects (WEE!) plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.1, consider disabling the 'wee' shortcode until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Restrict access to pages that utilize the 'wee' shortcode to minimize the risk of script injection.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-1560

Affected Products

Wow Entrance Effects

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1560 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1560 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1895444363611644228 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/19130 · Telegram Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wow-entrance-effects-wee · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wow-entrance-effects-wee/trunk/wee.php · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1895619339224826246 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/423e840e-0bc2-4481-afff-61ace85788d3?source=cve · Note