In Formality plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 1.5.8 a medium severity vulnerability CVE-2025-3858 was detected. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts via the ‘align’ parameter, which execute when a user accesses an injected page, due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. To address this issue, users should upgrade Formality plugin to versions 1.5.9 or later. For more details, visit https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3858.
WordPress: Stored XSS in Formality Plugin via Align Parameter
by the Hossted team
05.05.2025