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CVE-2025-8690: Simple Responsive Slider <= 2.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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 Simple Responsive Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 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

• addix Simple Responsive Slider: through 2.0

References

• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/addi-simple-slider/tags/2.0/methods.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/addi-simple-slider/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7888aedb-5421-4c3a-8459-d6177b398a06?source=cve

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