FKIE_CVE-2025-14797

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-24 08:16 - Updated: 2026-04-15 00:35
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Same Category Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the widget title placeholder functionality in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.19. This is due to the use of `htmlspecialchars_decode()` on taxonomy term names before output, which decodes HTML entities that WordPress intentionally encodes for safety. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/same-category-posts/tags/1.1.19/same-category-posts.php#L639
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/same-category-posts/tags/1.1.19/same-category-posts.php#L665
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/same-category-posts/tags/1.1.19/same-category-posts.php#L707
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3444428%40same-category-posts&new=3444428%40same-category-posts&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/70434876-4876-4da8-9af1-6f6ef5632f26?source=cve
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  "lastModified": "2026-04-15T00:35:42.020",
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