The HT Slider for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'slide_title' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in JavaScript. 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.

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 None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00039.

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
htplugins HT Slider For Elementor unaffected
Version Status Constraints
* affected ≤ 1.7.4

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References
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-slider-for-elementor/tags/1.7.4/assets/js/htslider-widgets.js#L223 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-slider-for-elementor/tags/1.7.4/include/addons/htslider_scroll_navigation.php#L1397 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3415988%40ht-slider-for-elementor&new=3415988%40ht-slider-for-elementor#file1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/af580e5a-a9da-4516-b612-b544dc73cf23?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Elementor
Elementor elementor
Htplugins
Htplugins ht Slider For Elementor
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Elementor
Elementor elementor
Htplugins
Htplugins ht Slider For Elementor
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 03:45:00 +0000

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Description The HT Slider for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'slide_title' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in JavaScript. 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.
Title HT Slider for Elementor <= 1.7.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-15T15:49:04.121Z

Reserved: 2025-12-08T17:05:36.951Z

Link: CVE-2025-14278

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-15T15:43:55.831Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-12-13T16:16:48.147

Modified: 2025-12-15T18:22:13.783

Link: CVE-2025-14278

cve-icon Redhat

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Updated: 2025-12-14T21:15:01Z

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