CVE-2025-13862: Menu Card <= 0.8.0 - 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: 0.3% 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 Menu Card plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `category` parameter in all versions up to, and including, 0.8.0 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

furqan-khanzada Menu Card: through 0.8.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/menu-card/tags/0.8.0/menu-card.php#L102
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/menu-card/trunk/menu-card.php#L102
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cec428cd-0fa1-4bc4-b7f6-faf90c31f306?source=cve

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