CVE-2025-57920

WordPress Category Featured Images Extended Plugin <= 1.52 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

5.9 Medium

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in CK MacLeod Category Featured Images Extended category-featured-images-extended allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Category Featured Images Extended: from n/a through <= 1.52.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: High
User interaction: Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: Low

Exploit likelihood

0.23%Up 0.2 points since Sep 23, 2025

What each source reports

CVE List Score used5.9

WordPress Category Featured Images Extended Plugin <= 1.52 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Record: CVE-2025-57920
CVSS 3.1: 5.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness: CWE-79
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2025-307215.9

Record: EUVD-2025-30721
CVSS 3.1: 5.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-mhhj-vw49-444p5.9

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')...

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in CK MacLeod Category Featured Images Extended allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Category Featured Images Extended: from n/a through 1.52.

Record: GHSA-mhhj-vw49-444p
CVSS 3.1: 5.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness: CWE-79
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD5.9

Record: CVE-2025-57920
CVSS 3.1: 5.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness: CWE-79
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

ck macleod category featured images extended

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-57920 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) in Ck Macleod Category Featured Images Extended, published September 22, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.23%, the 14th percentile. No source names a fixed version.