{"cve":"CVE-2025-14797","nvd":{"published":"2026-01-24T08:16:05.900","modified":"2026-06-17T08:36:33.917","status":"Deferred","description":"The Same Category Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the widget title placeholder functionality in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.19. This is due to the use of `htmlspecialchars_decode()` on taxonomy term names before output, which decodes HTML entities that WordPress intentionally encodes for safety. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","score":5.4},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"references":["https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/same-category-posts/tags/1.1.19/same-category-posts.php#L639","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/same-category-posts/tags/1.1.19/same-category-posts.php#L665","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/same-category-posts/tags/1.1.19/same-category-posts.php#L707","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3444428%40same-category-posts&new=3444428%40same-category-posts&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=","https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/70434876-4876-4da8-9af1-6f6ef5632f26?source=cve"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:21:16.563232421+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-14797","score":0.00244,"percentile":0.15621,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}