CVE-2025-11874 Slippy Slider – Responsive Touch Navigation Slider <= 2.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via shortcode attributes, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11874?
CVE-2025-11874 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in mitegvg Slippy Slider – Responsive Touch Navigation Slider, published on 11 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Slippy Slider – Responsive Touch Navigation Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'slippy-slider' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 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.
Weakness: CWE-80
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11874?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11874?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11874 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2025-11874 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11874 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m9w6-f4xq-vj26.