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CVE-2025-5585: SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle <= 1.68.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via `data-url` DOM Element Attribute

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: none known
• Published: 2025-06-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `data-url` DOM Element Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 1.68.4 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

• gpriday SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle: before 1.69.0 — fixed in 1.69.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: gpriday SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle 1.69.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/so-widgets-bundle/tags/1.68.4/js/slider/jquery.slider.js
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb1b93ee-8641-4ddb-8b6b-2e9d30fe338d?source=cve

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