CVE-2025-9500: TablePress <= 3.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcode_debug Parameter

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2025-08-30 · updated 2026-10-18
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The TablePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘shortcode_debug’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.2 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

tobiasbg TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy: through 3.2

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tablepress/tags/3.1.3/controllers/controller-frontend.php#L635
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tablepress/tags/3.1.3/controllers/controller-frontend.php#L903
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3352096/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#developers
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2b24ae23-d055-4740-bd86-126d503fce1b?source=cve

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