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CVE-2025-14278: HT Slider for Elementor <= 1.7.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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: 2025-12-13 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The HT Slider for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'slide_title' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in JavaScript. 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

• HT Slider For Elementor: through 1.7.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-slider-for-elementor/tags/1.7.4/assets/js/htslider-widgets.js#L223
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-slider-for-elementor/tags/1.7.4/include/addons/htslider_scroll_navigation.php#L1397
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3415988%40ht-slider-for-elementor&new=3415988%40ht-slider-for-elementor#file1
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/af580e5a-a9da-4516-b612-b544dc73cf23?source=cve

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