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CVE-2025-13852: Debt.com Business in a Box <= 4.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

• 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: 2026-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Debt.com Business in a Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'configuration' parameter of the lead_form shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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

• debtcom Debt.com Business in a Box: through 4.1.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/debtcom-business-in-a-box/tags/4.1.0/inc/bib_form.php#L256
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/debtcom-business-in-a-box/trunk/inc/bib_form.php#L256
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1bb58556-29be-4272-85fc-bb2b7c72abf4?source=cve

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