CVE-2025-5336: Click to Chat <= 4.22 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via data-no_number 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: 2025-06-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Click to Chat plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-no_number’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.22 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

holithemes Click to Chat – HoliThemes: through 4.22

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.22/new/inc/assets/js/dev/app.dev.js#L126
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/tags/4.22/new/inc/assets/js/dev/app.dev.js#L818
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3309693/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/click-to-chat-for-whatsapp/#developers
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/83695ac4-a08b-4c25-ac33-d9b7498f5a2c?source=cve

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