Beneath the Mask: Can Contribution Data Unveil Malicious Personas in Open-Source Projects?

In February 2024, after building trust over two years with project maintainers by making a significant volume of legitimate contributions, GitHub user "JiaT75" self-merged a version of the XZ Utils project containing a highly sophisticated, well-disguised backdoor targeting sshd processes running...

CVE-2025-8905

The Inpersttion For Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 via the themesectionshortcode function. This is due to the plugin not restricting what functions can be called. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

CVE-2025-7507

The elink – Embed Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Malicious Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.0. This is due to the plugin not restricting URLS that can be supplied through the elink shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-lev...

CVE-2025-8720

The Plugin README Parser plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘target’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.15 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level...

CVE-2025-5844

The Radius Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘subHeadingTagName’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

CVE-2025-8604

The WP Table Builder – WordPress Table Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's wptb shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possib...

CVE-2025-7650

The BizCalendar Web plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.0.53 via the 'bizcalv' shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to include and execute arbitrary files on the...

CVE-2025-8451

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-gallery-items’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. Thi...

CVE-2025-8867

The Graphina - Elementor Charts and Graphs plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple chart widget parameters in version 3.1.3 and below. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes such as chart categories,...

CVE-2025-8142

The Soledad theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 8.6.7 via the 'headerlayout' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to include and execute arbitrary .php files on the serve...

CVE-2025-8143

The Soledad theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘pcsmlsmartlistsh’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 8.6.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level acce...

CVE-2025-8143

The CVE-2025-8143 entry concerns the Soledad WordPress theme. It describes a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable via the pcsml_smartlists_h parameter in all versions up to 8.6.7. The issue requires Contributor-level authentication or higher and allows an attacker to inject...

CVE-2025-8143 Soledad <= 8.6.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'pcsml_smartlists_h'

The Soledad theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘pcsmlsmartlistsh’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 8.6.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level acce...

CVE-2025-8143 Soledad <= 8.6.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'pcsml_smartlists_h'

The Soledad theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘pcsmlsmartlistsh’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 8.6.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level acce...

CVE-2025-8142

CVE-2025-8142 : Soledad theme for WordPress is affected by a Local File Inclusion vulnerability in versions up to 8.6.7 via the header_layout parameter. Authenticated users with Contributor+ can include and execute arbitrary PHP files on the server, enabling code execution and potential data acce...

CVE-2025-8719

The Translate This gTranslate Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘baselang’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

CVE-2025-8719 Translate This - Google Translate Web Element Shortcode <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via base_lang Parameter

The Translate This gTranslate Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘baselang’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

CVE-2025-8719

CVE-2025-8719 documents a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Translate This gTranslate Shortcode for WordPress, affecting all versions up to 1.0. The issue is triggered via the base_lang parameter and requires authentication at Contributor level or higher to inject scripts that execute ...

CVE-2025-8719 Translate This - Google Translate Web Element Shortcode <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via base_lang Parameter

The Translate This gTranslate Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘baselang’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

CVE-2025-8089 Advanced iFrame <= 2025.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The Advanced iFrame plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'additional' parameter in version less than, or equal to, 2025.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level...