TablePress <= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Multiple Parameters
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 TablePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-caption', 'data-s-content-padding', 'data-s-title', and 'data-footer' data-attributes in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Why it matters now
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-2025-5096
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p97c-7hc4-x66c
References
Patch 3
Other 5
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tablepress/tags/3.1.2/js/jquery.datatables.min.js
- https://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc/blob/29539c40504365bc4be0599e4b0739cf270a2e09/js/core/core.constructor.js#L329
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#developers
- https://datatables.net/
- https://tablepress.org/release-announcement-tablepress-3-1-3/
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- TI-2025-02350 TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy <= 3.0.4 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
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- TI-2017-07978 XML external entity injection in tablepress.org TablePress CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 4.3
Sources
- CVE-2025-5096 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-5096 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-p97c-7hc4-x66c · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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