#VU109845 Stored cross-site scripting in Hot Random Image - CVE-2025-4405
Published: May 27, 2025
Hot Random Image
HotThemes
Description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "link" parameter. A remote user can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
External links
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hot-random-image/tags/1.9.2/hot_random_image.php#L43
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3298033/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/hot-random-image/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c5cff14e-e891-4569-afd8-2885ebb26401?source=cve