Description

The WP Project Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.22 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 the SVG file.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-2541

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.4

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: wedevs

Product: WP Project Manager – Task, team, and project management plugin featuring kanban board and gantt charts

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 8.63% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2541
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dcc68b62-7dd1-47d4-bbc5-d0237b7c85e7?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wedevs-project-manager/tags/2.6.20/core/WP/Frontend.php#L209
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wedevs-project-manager/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3268509/

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