PT-2026-1718 · WordPress · Curved Text

Published 2026-01-09 · Updated 2026-01-09 · CVE-2025-13854

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 Curved Text versions prior to 0.1

Description The Curved Text plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the radius parameter of the arctext shortcode. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping allow authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the affected page. The vulnerable component is the arctext shortcode.

Recommendations Update the Curved Text plugin to a version newer than 0.1.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-13854

Affected Products

Curved Text

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13854 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48514fdb-20c6-4a7f-8f60-e532ddd8853e?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/41828 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/148205 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/2009636362782204116 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/curved-text/trunk/curved-text.php#L32 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/curved-text/tags/0.1/curved-text.php#L32 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2009589658720637153 · Twitter Post