Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in magicoders ACF Recent Posts Widget acf-recent-posts-widget allows Stored XSS.This issue affects ACF Recent Posts Widget: from n/a through <= 5.9.3.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00052.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
magicoders ACF Recent Posts Widget unaffected
Version Status Constraints
n/a affected ≤ <= 5.9.3

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Description Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in magicoders ACF Recent Posts Widget acf-recent-posts-widget allows Stored XSS.This issue affects ACF Recent Posts Widget: from n/a through <= 5.9.3.
Title WordPress ACF Recent Posts Widget plugin <= 5.9.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Weaknesses CWE-79
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Patchstack

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-20T14:28:16.537Z

Reserved: 2025-10-24T14:24:16.561Z

Link: CVE-2025-62894

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Updated: 2025-10-27T15:21:19.310Z

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-27T02:15:48.407

Modified: 2026-01-20T15:18:02.083

Link: CVE-2025-62894

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Updated: 2025-10-27T22:09:59Z

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