What is CVE-2025-9493?

CVE-2025-9493 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Whiteshadow Admin Menu Editor, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-09-06.

How severe is CVE-2025-9493?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

XSS in Whiteshadow Admin Menu Editor

CVE-2025-9493

The Admin Menu Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘placeholder’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (15.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Whiteshadow Admin Menu Editor — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-9493?: CVE-2025-9493 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Whiteshadow Admin Menu Editor, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-09-06.
How severe is CVE-2025-9493?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.