CVE-2025-3432: AAWEP Obfuscator <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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: 2025-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The AAWP Obfuscator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-aawp-web' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 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 an injected page.

Affected products

elpix AAWP Obfuscator: through 1.0

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/aawp-obfuscator/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/26b1b899-37a2-44fd-b961-5e6175e0417f?source=cve

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