CVE-2025-1328 Cross-site scripting in Typed JS: A typewriter style animation

Medium 6.4 Published Updated

Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the typespeed parameter, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2025-1328?

CVE-2025-1328 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in mrlegend1235 Typed JS: A typewriter style animation, published on 20 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Typed JS: A typewriter style animation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘typespeed’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.0 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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1328?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mrlegend1235 Typed Js.

How do I fix CVE-2025-1328?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1328 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-2025-1328 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1328 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-m858-gm2f-6jcg.

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