CVE-2025-5524

MEDIUM

OceanWP <= 4.0.9 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Select HTML Tag

Title source: llm

Description

The OceanWP theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Select HTML tag in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Product

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/oceanwp/4.0.9/assets/js/select.min.js

Product

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/276114/

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/37b085f9-3b15-44aa-9ba0-de5321dfbce4?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 4.9

EPSS 0.0021

EPSS Percentile 10.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (1)

oceanwp/OceanWP < 4.0.9

Published Jun 19, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026