mlcalc Mortgage Calculator and Loan Calculator Plugin up to 1.5.19 on WordPress Shortcode cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in mlcalc Mortgage Calculator and Loan Calculator Plugin up to 1.5.19 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Shortcode Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-0805. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in mlcalc Mortgage Calculator and Loan Calculator Plugin up to 1.5.19 on WordPress. This affects an unknown code block of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Mortgage Calculator / Loan Calculator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'mlcalc' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.20 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.

The weakness was released by Muhammad Yudha. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-0805 since 01/28/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.5.20 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• mlcalc

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• Mortgage Calculator and Loan Calculator Plugin

Version

• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.5.10
• 1.5.11
• 1.5.12
• 1.5.13
• 1.5.14
• 1.5.15
• 1.5.16
• 1.5.17
• 1.5.18
• 1.5.19

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