CVE-2025-4099

The List Children plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'list_children' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1 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.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/list-children/trunk/list_children.php#L26	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3284430/	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/538b4d4b-f8c6-44db-89d2-d345bfbfecb2?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:sizeable:list_children:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

19 May 2025, 11:49

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-05-01 05:15

Updated : 2025-05-19 11:49

NVD link : CVE-2025-4099

Mitre link : CVE-2025-4099

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-4099

JSON object : View

Products Affected

sizeable

list_children

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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