CVE-2025-5125 (GCVE-0-2025-5125)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-20 06:00 – Updated: 2025-06-23 20:22
VLAI
Title
Custom Post Carousels with Owl < 1.4.12 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Custom Post Carousels with Owl WordPress plugin before 1.4.12 uses the featherlight library and makes use of the data-featherlight attribute without sanitizing before using it.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-23 20:21 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aaf9e3f8-b312-43… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Custom Post Carousels with Owl Affected: 0 , < 1.4.12 (semver)
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Credits
Pierre Rudloff WPScan
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