CVE-2025-7963
Description
The Easy Waveform Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the shortcode_easywaveformplayer() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-waveform-player/trunk/includes/class-easywaveformplayer.php#L304
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3674516%40easy-waveform-player&new=3674516%40easy-waveform-player
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-waveform-player/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/73347ab9-2248-4402-85bf-8996b342501b?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.