{"id":"CVE-2025-10165","title":"The AP Background plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'adv_parallax_back' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on …","summary":"The AP Background plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'adv_parallax_back' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on …","severity":"medium","cvss":6.4,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","cwe":["CWE-79"],"published":"2025-10-03","updated":"2026-10-08","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-08T23:10:00.213","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10165","references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ap-background/trunk/includes/shortCodeClass.php#L44","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/ap-background","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f98b848c-9f97-4d00-97de-7651b9035731?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00231,"epssPercentile":0.12827,"ingestedAt":"2026-10-08T23:16:47.366Z","slug":"CVE-2025-10165","body":"## Overview\n\nThe AP Background plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'adv_parallax_back' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":35,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":35.2,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}