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1 vulnerability found for Admin Menu Editor by whiteshadow

CVE-2025-9493 (GCVE-0-2025-9493)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-06 03:22
Modified
2026-04-08 16:58
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
The Admin Menu Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘placeholder’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.14 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 an injected page.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
whiteshadow Admin Menu Editor Version: 0    1.14
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