CVE-2025-15675 Charitable < 1.8.5.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Photo Field ALT Text

Medium 4.8 Published Updated

High-privilege users can inject malicious scripts via campaign image alt text, leading to stored XSS on front-end pages.

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
None listed

What is CVE-2025-15675?

CVE-2025-15675 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Charitable, published on 2 Aug 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Charitable WordPress plugin before 1.8.5.3 does not sanitise and escape one of its campaign image text fields before outputting it in an HTML attribute, allowing users with a high-privilege campaign-management role to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that execute on the front-end campaign page.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-15675?

How do I fix CVE-2025-15675?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-15675 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-2025-15675 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-15675 exists.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-pwhm-f4mm-grcw.

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