cve-2025-6757
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-06 04:22
Modified
2025-09-08 15:01
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Recent Posts Widget Extended <= 2.0.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via rpwe Shortcode
References
Impacted products
▼ | Vendor | Product |
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themejunkie | Recent Posts Widget Extended |
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