---
id: CVE-2025-15701
title: Easy Social Icons < 4.0.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Icon Color Settings
summary: >-
  The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 4.0.3 does not sanitise and
  escape some of its settings before outputting them on front-end pages, which
  could allow high-privilege users such as Administrators to perform Stored
  Cross-Site S…
severity: low
cvss: 3.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'
cvssSource: adp
cwe:
  - CWE-79
product: Easy Social Icons
affected:
  - easy_social_icons < 4.0.3
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-11-06T11:55:58.323416Z'
published: '2026-11-05'
updated: '2026-11-06'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-06T12:08:59.917Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15701'
references:
  - url: 'https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/32a2349b-515e-4616-ab53-a7a536ade5a7/'
tags:
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00153
epssPercentile: 0.04459
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T21:36:00.786Z'
---

## Overview

The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 4.0.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings before outputting them on front-end pages, which could allow high-privilege users such as Administrators to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, for example on a multisite network.

## Affected

- `easy_social_icons < 4.0.3`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.