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CVE-2025-13608: CC Child Pages <= 2.0.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'child_pages' Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-15 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The CC Child Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'child_pages' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on four user-supplied attributes (use_custom_link, use_custom_link_target, use_custom_thumbs, and use_custom_excerpt) in the 'show_child_pages' function. 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 products

• caterhamcomputing CC Child Pages: through 2.0.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3403877/cc-child-pages
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/139009b5-69d4-44ca-820c-766645828e5e?source=cve

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