PT-2025-9176 · WordPress · Wp Posts Carousel

Krzysztof Zając · Published 2025-03-01 · Updated 2025-03-02 · CVE-2025-1491

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 Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 1.3.7

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages via the auto play timeout parameter. The injected scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For WP Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 1.3.7, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the auto play timeout parameter to prevent exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-1491

Affected Products

Wp Posts Carousel

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1491 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/112989 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1895981981625893083 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/WolfgangSesin/status/1896122676453736597 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3248502 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-posts-carousel/#developers · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f708c72-7ce2-4eb0-869b-cec4613f6f3f?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1895833582389567708 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/19238 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/cybercronai/status/1896059223856869789 · Twitter Post