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CVE-2025-9853: Optio Dentistry <= 2.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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: 2025-09-06 · updated 2026-09-30
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Optio Dentistry plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'optio-lightbox' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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

• Optio Dentistry: through 2.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/optio-dentistry/tags/2.2/optio-dentistry.php#L92
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3355511%40optio-dentistry&new=3355511%40optio-dentistry&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c1fda48e-cd19-469e-8a73-fd933752d03c?source=cve

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