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CVE-2025-8314: Software Issue Manager <= 5.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via noaccess_msg 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: 2025-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Software Issue Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘noaccess_msg parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1 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

• emarket-design Project Management, Bug and Issue Tracking Plugin – Software Issue Manager: through 5.0.0

References

• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/software-issue-manager/tags/5.0.0/includes/emd-form-builder-lite/emd-form-frontend.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3341018/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/software-issue-manager/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3ef87ab8-d56b-4d3a-b4fc-6c17c24143ec?source=cve

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