CVE-2025-2685 TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy <= 3.0.4 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Authenticated attackers with Author access can inject arbitrary scripts via the table-name parameter, executing them for other users.
- 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-2025-2685?
CVE-2025-2685 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in tobiasbg TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy, published on 27 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘table-name’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-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-2025-2685?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Tablepress Tablepress.
How do I fix CVE-2025-2685?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2685 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-2025-2685 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2685 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in tobiasbg TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy
- CVE-2019-20180 Other in n/a
- CVE-2025-5096 TablePress <= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Multiple Parameters
- CVE-2024-9595 TablePress <= 2.4.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2024-4354 TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy <= 2.3 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery via DNS Rebind
- CVE-2017-10889 XML external entity in TablePress
Sources
Also known as GHSA-78c4-7995-c6rm.