What is CVE-2025-9698?

CVE-2025-9698 is a medium-severity vulnerability in The Plus Addons For Elementor, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2025-10-13.

How severe is CVE-2025-9698?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in The Plus Addons For Elementor

CVE-2025-9698

The Plus Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.3.16 does not sanitize SVG file contents, which could allow users with minimum role access as Author to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Published 2025-10-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (21.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 21.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

The Plus Addons For Elementor — versions 0

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/a9539def-d92b-4117-b36a-17015c578d89/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-9698?: CVE-2025-9698 is a medium-severity vulnerability in The Plus Addons For Elementor, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2025-10-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-9698?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.