CVE-2025-5125: Custom Post Carousels with Owl < 1.4.12 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 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: yes
Published: 2025-06-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Custom Post Carousels with Owl WordPress plugin before 1.4.12 uses the featherlight library and makes use of the data-featherlight attribute without sanitizing before using it.

Affected products

Howard Ehrenberg Custom Post Carousels with Owl: before 1.4.12 — fixed in 1.4.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Howard Ehrenberg Custom Post Carousels with Owl 1.4.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aaf9e3f8-b312-432d-a635-6fe89ff8d13f/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aaf9e3f8-b312-432d-a635-6fe89ff8d13f/

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