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Widget Options — Extended <= 5.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2025-8902Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.2.1Update to 5.2.2 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.4
CVSS
6.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Widget Options - Extended extended-widget-options

  1. Affected≤ 5.2.1
  2. Patched in5.2.2

Update to 5.2.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.2.1. Version 5.2.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Widget Options - Extended.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.2.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Widget Options - Extended to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to stealthcopter.

The Widget Options - Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'do_sidebar' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.1 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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Widget Options - Extended

All 3
More vulnerabilities in Widget Options - Extended
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.8Authenticated (Contributor+) Remote Code Execution via Display Logic
≤4.2.2Update to 4.2.3
CVE-2026-2052
Medium4.3Extended <= 5.1.0 & Widget Options <= 4.0.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Disclosure
≤4.0.1Update to 4.0.2
CVE-2024-35691

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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