What is CVE-2025-5125?

CVE-2025-5125 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Howardehrenberg Custom Post Carousels With Owl, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-06-20.

How severe is CVE-2025-5125?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in Howardehrenberg Custom Post Carousels With Owl

CVE-2025-5125

The Custom Post Carousels with Owl WordPress plugin before 1.4.12 uses the featherlight library and makes use of the data-featherlight attribute without sanitizing before using it.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (11.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Howardehrenberg Custom_post_carousels_with_owl
Unknown Custom Post Carousels With Owl — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-5125?: CVE-2025-5125 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Howardehrenberg Custom Post Carousels With Owl, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-06-20.
How severe is CVE-2025-5125?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.