Stored XSS via unescaped slider content
Published Aug 12, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026
Stored XSS in Addix Simple Responsive Slider 2.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to inject scripts into WordPress pages. The advisory identifies methods.php but not a function or field; contributor-controlled page content is stored without sufficient sanitization and rendered without sufficient escaping. Contributor-level access or higher is required, and the script runs whenever a user opens an injected page, enabling browser-context data access or actions.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in Addix Simple Responsive Slider 2.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to inject scripts into WordPress pages. The advisory identifies methods.php but not a function or field; contributor-controlled page content is stored without sufficient sanitization and rendered without sufficient escaping. Contributor-level access or higher is required, and the script runs whenever a user opens an injected page, enabling browser-context data access or actions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-8690
- Published
- Aug 12, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Vendor
- marcelotorres
- Product
- Simple Responsive Slider
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1189
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 12, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=2.0
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