---
id: CVE-2025-8394
title: >-
  The Productive Style plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site
  Scripting via the plugin's display_productive_breadcrumb shortcode in all
  versions up to, and including, 1.1.23 due to insufficient input sanitization
  and outpu…
summary: >-
  The Productive Style plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site
  Scripting via the plugin's display_productive_breadcrumb shortcode in all
  versions up to, and including, 1.1.23 due to insufficient input sanitization
  and outpu…
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: '2025-09-17'
updated: '2026-09-26'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-26T00:10:00.127'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8394'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/productive-style/tags/1.1.23/includes/common/module/breadcrumb.php
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3341842%40productive-style&new=3341842%40productive-style&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: 'https://wordpress.org/plugins/productive-style/#developers'
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/358a1a87-a87c-41b9-addc-d4945cd8fb40?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00239
epssPercentile: 0.13364
ingestedAt: '2026-09-26T00:22:39.920Z'
---

## Overview

The Productive Style plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's display_productive_breadcrumb shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.23 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.