teastudiopl WP Posts Carousel Plugin up to 1.3.7 on WordPress auto_play_timeout cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in teastudiopl WP Posts Carousel Plugin up to 1.3.7 on WordPress. This impacts an unknown function. This manipulation of the argument auto_play_timeout causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-1491. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in teastudiopl WP Posts Carousel Plugin up to 1.3.7 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument auto_play_timeout with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The WP Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘auto_play_timeout’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.7 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.

The weakness was disclosed by Krzysztof Zając. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-1491 since 02/19/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• teastudiopl

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• WP Posts Carousel Plugin

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• 1.3.0
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.2
• 1.3.3
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.5
• 1.3.6
• 1.3.7

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