Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider: Cross-site scripting
Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider
- Plugin slug
slider,-gallery,-and-carousel- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 24, 2025
This CVE was published Mar 24, 2025 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider WordPress plugin before 3.95.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N