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CVE-2025-2579: Lottie Player <= 1.1.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via File Upload

• 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: 2025-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Lottie Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the uploaded file.

Affected products

• bplugins Lottie Player – Add Interactive Lottie Animations with Block Support: through 1.1.8

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-lottie-player/tags/1.1.8/plugin.php#L130
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-lottie-player/tags/1.1.8/plugin.php#L82
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-lottie-player/tags/1.2.0/plugin.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-lottie-player/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b85b314d-a155-4cec-95c9-0db4b9d8e59b?source=cve

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