---
id: CVE-2025-13614
title: >-
  The Cool Tag Cloud plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site
  Scripting via the plugin's 'cool_tag_cloud' shortcode in all versions up to,
  and including, 2.29 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping
  on use…
summary: >-
  The Cool Tag Cloud plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site
  Scripting via the plugin's 'cool_tag_cloud' shortcode in all versions up to,
  and including, 2.29 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping
  on use…
severity: high
cvss: 8.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
published: '2025-12-05'
updated: '2026-09-25'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-25T23:10:00.463'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13614'
references:
  - url: >-
      http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cool-tag-cloud/trunk/cool-tag-cloud.php?marks=798-799#L682
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eac56190-4f81-464d-9737-ae2e3d4b0d0d?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00343
epssPercentile: 0.25229
ingestedAt: '2026-09-25T23:21:16.890Z'
---

## Overview

The Cool Tag Cloud plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'cool_tag_cloud' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.29 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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.