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CVE-2025-7963: Easy Waveform Player <= 1.2.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcode_easywaveformplayer Function

• 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: 2026-09-02 · updated 2026-10-19
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Easy Waveform Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the shortcode_easywaveformplayer() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.2 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

• tymotey Easy Waveform Player: through 1.2.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-waveform-player/trunk/includes/class-easywaveformplayer.php#L304
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3674516%40easy-waveform-player&new=3674516%40easy-waveform-player
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-waveform-player/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/73347ab9-2248-4402-85bf-8996b342501b?source=cve

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