Widgets for Google Reviews <= 13.2.4 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Google Reviews
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 13.2.5
- Affected Plugin
- Widgets for Google Reviews
- Affected Version
<= 13.2.4- CVSS
- 7.2High
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2025-12510
At a glance
CVE-2025-12510 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Widgets for Google Reviews WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 13.2.4. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 13.2.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2025, reported by Kishan Vyas.
Vulnerability Overview
The Widgets for Google Reviews plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 13.2.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on Google Reviews data imported by the plugin. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute in the admin panel (and potentially on the frontend) whenever a user accesses imported reviews, granted they can add a malicious review to a Google Place that is connected to the vulnerable site.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Widgets for Google Reviews <= 13.2.4 takes no account at all. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Widgets for Google Reviews the fix is 13.2.5: builds <= 13.2.4 are affected, anything from 13.2.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 13.2.5, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Widgets for Google Reviews 13.2.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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