CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-5291
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's masterslider_pb and ms_slide shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 3.10.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for 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.
Affected configurations
• averta master slider (< 3.10.9)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/master-slider/tags/3.10.8/includes/msp-shortcodes.php#L28 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/master-slider/tags/3.10.8/includes/msp-shortcodes.php#L633 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/master-slider/tags/3.10.8/includes/msp-shortcodes.php#L763 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/master-slider/tags/3.10.8/includes/msp-shortcodes.php#L783 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3309620/ Patch
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/master-slider/#description Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce37fbd2-8d41-4feb-adf6-7ca0ca54e27a?source=cve Third Party Advisory