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CVE-2021-25113: Dropdown Menu Widget <= 1.9.7 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Settings Update to Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Dropdown Menu Widget WordPress plugin through 1.9.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when saving its settings, allowing low privilege users such as subscriber to update them. Due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, it could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues

Affected products

• Dropdown Menu Widget: through 1.9.7

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7a5078db-e0d4-4076-9de9-5401c3ca0d65
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7a5078db-e0d4-4076-9de9-5401c3ca0d65

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