What is CVE-2025-5524?

CVE-2025-5524 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oceanwp, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-06-19.

How severe is CVE-2025-5524?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

XSS in Oceanwp

CVE-2025-5524

The OceanWP theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Select HTML tag in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authent…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.001 (30.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Oceanwp — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/37b085f9-3b15-44aa-9ba0-de532…
themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/oceanwp/4.0.9/assets/js/select.min.js
themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/276114/

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-5524?: CVE-2025-5524 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oceanwp, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-06-19.
How severe is CVE-2025-5524?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.