CVE-2025-6290: The Tournament Bracket Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'bracket' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient

medium Affects tournament-bracket-generator (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The Tournament Bracket Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'bracket' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient

Package
tournament-bracket-generator (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<=1.0.0
Fixed in
no fix recorded
Severity
medium  CVSS 6.4
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (8.9th percentile)
Published
2025-06-26
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
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