CVE-2025-2579

The Lottie Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the uploaded file.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.4 Medium

Status

Deferred - security@wordfence.com

Published

2025-04-24

Last modified

2026-04-08

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Lottie Player Add Interactive Lottie Animations With Block Support (Bplugins)

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-lottie-player/tags/1.1.8/plugin.php#L130
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-lottie-player/tags/1.1.8/plugin.php#L82
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-lottie-player/tags/1.2.0/plugin.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-lottie-player/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b85b314d-a155-4cec-95c9-0db4b9d8e59b?source=cve