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Plain-English summary
CVE-2025-15675 affects the Charitable WordPress plugin before 1.8.5.3. A highly privileged campaign-management user can save malicious script in a campaign image ALT text field, which may run for visitors viewing the campaign page. This is not remotely exploitable by anonymous users based on the provided sources.
Executive priority
Treat as a moderate-priority WordPress plugin update. The attacker needs high privileges, reducing likelihood, but successful exploitation can affect public visitors and site trust. Prioritize internet-facing donation or fundraising sites and environments with many content administrators.
Technical view
The issue is stored cross-site scripting caused by missing sanitization and escaping of a campaign image text field before output in an HTML attribute. CVSS 3.1 is 4.8: network reachable, low attack complexity, high privileges required, user interaction required, changed scope, low confidentiality and integrity impact, no availability impact.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to WordPress sites using Charitable versions before 1.8.5.3 where trusted campaign-management or admin-level users can edit campaign image ALT text. Public-facing campaign pages can deliver the stored script to viewers once content is saved.
Exploitation context
The CVE is not in CISA KEV, and the bundle provides no evidence of active exploitation. WPScan is listed as a technical reference with an exploit tag, indicating public vulnerability details may exist, but the provided data does not establish real-world attacks.
Researcher notes
Evidence is limited to CVE metadata and WPScan reference information. The affected range is described as before 1.8.5.3. The affected product metadata is sparse and lists vendor as unknown, so validation should rely on plugin name, installed version, and vendor/WPScan advisories.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Charitable to version 1.8.5.3 or later.
- Review vendor guidance before applying compensating controls.
- Limit campaign-management permissions to trusted users only.
- Review recent campaign image ALT text changes for suspicious content.
- Apply standard WordPress admin account hardening and MFA where available.
Validation and detection
- Inventory WordPress sites using the Charitable plugin.
- Confirm installed Charitable versions are 1.8.5.3 or later.
- Review user roles with campaign-management privileges.
- Check campaign image ALT text fields for unexpected script-like content.
- Verify campaign pages render image attributes safely after updating.
Public sources used
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- Medium
- CVSS
- 4.8 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N1.72.7CISA-ADPVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
4.8MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/19381d34-3942-4ba6-92a9-0290e1006da0/CVE reference, WPScan · exploit, vdb-entry
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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.