The Taxonomy Chain Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's pn_chain_menu shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 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.
History

Tue, 06 May 2025 15:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Pluginus
Pluginus taxonomy Chain Menu
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:pluginus:taxonomy_chain_menu:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Pluginus
Pluginus taxonomy Chain Menu

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description The Taxonomy Chain Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's pn_chain_menu shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 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.
Title Taxonomy Chain Menu <= 1.0.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via pn_chain_menu Shortcode
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2025-05-02T03:21:17.556Z

Updated: 2025-05-02T14:59:31.059Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T20:08:42.835Z

Link: CVE-2025-3748

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-02T14:59:24.584Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-05-02T04:15:55.883

Modified: 2025-05-06T15:19:46.247

Link: CVE-2025-3748

cve-icon Redhat

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