CVE-2025-5096 TablePress <= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Multiple Parameters
Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via data attributes in TablePress, leading to code execution when users view affected 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-2025-5096?
CVE-2025-5096 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in tobiasbg TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy, published on 23 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The TablePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-caption', 'data-s-content-padding', 'data-s-title', and 'data-footer' data-attributes in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 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-2025-5096?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Tablepress Tablepress.
How do I fix CVE-2025-5096?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5096 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-2025-5096 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5096 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-2025-2685 TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy <= 3.0.4 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- 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-p97c-7hc4-x66c.