# CVE-2025-1523: Ultimate Dashboard < 3.8.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS

> Admins can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings in Ultimate Dashboard, bypassing unfiltered_html restrictions in multisite setups.

- **Severity:** Low 3.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 17 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4mpp-jp65-h4rw

## What is CVE-2025-1523?

CVE-2025-1523 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Ultimate Dashboard, published on 17 Apr 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Ultimate Dashboard  WordPress plugin before 3.8.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1523?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Davidvongries Ultimate Dashboard.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-1523?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1523 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1523 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1523 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Ultimate Dashboard

- [CVE-2023-50828](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-50828/): WordPress Ultimate Dashboard Plugin <= 3.7.11 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2023-4726](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4726/): Ultimate Dashboard <= 3.7.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via plugin settings (medium 4.4)
- [CVE-2025-1524](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1524/): Ultimate Dashboard < 3.8.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS (low 3.5)
- [CVE-2025-1525](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1525/): Ultimate Dashboard < 3.8.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS (low 3.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1523 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1523 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Ultimate Dashboard, published on 17 Apr 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1523 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Ultimate Dashboard. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1523/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1523/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1523
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1523
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1523

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1523/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.