Lottie Player <= 1.1.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via File Upload
Priority LOW 28CWE-79Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Lottie Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.8 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 uploaded file.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00316 24th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-2579
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vhj4-w2vf-v7jq
References
Other 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b85b314d-a155-4cec-95c9-0db4b9d8e59b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-lottie-player/tags/1.1.8/plugin.php#L82
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-lottie-player/tags/1.1.8/plugin.php#L130
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-lottie-player/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-lottie-player/tags/1.2.0/plugin.php
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Sources
- CVE-2025-2579 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-2579 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vhj4-w2vf-v7jq · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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