{"id":67879,"date":"2025-08-12T07:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8685-wordpress-wp-chart-generator-stored-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:02:39","slug":"cve-2025-8685-wordpress-wp-chart-generator-stored-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8685-wordpress-wp-chart-generator-stored-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-8685 &#8211; WordPress Wp Chart Generator Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-8685<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 12, 2025, 3:15 a.m. | 29\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The Wp chart generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin&#8217;s wpchart shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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-2025-8685 Published : Aug. 12, 2025, 3:15 a.m. | 29\u00a0minutes ago Description : The Wp chart generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin&#8217;s wpchart shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This &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-67879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67879","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=67879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}