{"id":67296,"date":"2025-08-02T13:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8317-wordpress-custom-word-cloud-stored-cross-site-scripting\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:01:56","slug":"cve-2025-8317-wordpress-custom-word-cloud-stored-cross-site-scripting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8317-wordpress-custom-word-cloud-stored-cross-site-scripting\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-8317 &#8211; WordPress Custom Word Cloud Stored Cross-Site Scripting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-8317<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 2, 2025, 8:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 23\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The Custom Word Cloud plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the \u2018angle\u2019 parameter in all versions up to, and including, 0.3 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 6.4 | MEDIUM<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-8317 Published : Aug. 2, 2025, 8:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 23\u00a0minutes ago Description : The Custom Word Cloud plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the \u2018angle\u2019 parameter in all versions up to, and including, 0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}