#VU114918 Stored cross-site scripting in ContentViews - Post Grid & List for WordPress - CVE-2025-8722
Published: September 8, 2025
ContentViews - Post Grid & List for WordPress
ContentViews
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 Grid and List widgets. 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/content-views-query-and-display-post-page/trunk/elementor/render.php#L30
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3350005/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-views-query-and-display-post-page/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/12443e0c-2a03-4f62-bf89-cf0497f44a26?source=cve