CVE-2025-3582: The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 8.85 does not sanitise and escape some of its Form settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

medium Affects newsletter (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2025-06-09; advisory modified 2026-06-17.

The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 8.85 does not sanitise and escape some of its Form settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Package: newsletter (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions: <8.8.5
Fixed in: 8.8.5
Severity: medium CVSS 4.8
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (17.4th percentile)
Published: 2025-06-09
Source: nvd

References

CWE-79

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