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CVE-2025-1491: WP Posts Carousel <= 1.3.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via auto_play_timeout Parameter

• 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: 2025-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘auto_play_timeout’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.7 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

• teastudiopl WP Posts Carousel: through 1.3.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3248502/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-posts-carousel/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f708c72-7ce2-4eb0-869b-cec4613f6f3f?source=cve

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