CVE-2025-4369Companion Auto Update <= 3.9.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via update_delay_days parameter
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.29%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 79% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Companion Auto Update plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘update_delay_days’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 79% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 3.9.2
References
References4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b4c61072-5480-43f3-ad9f-ed3f0d577ebc?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/companion-auto-update/#developers (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/companion-auto-update/tags/3.9.2/admin/dashboard.php#L71 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3325878/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-21421 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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