WordPress plugin · smart-slider-3
Is Smart Slider 3 safe?
Safe on 3.5.1.40 or newer.
The current version, 3.5.1.40, is past every affected range on record (12 of 12 records list one). Keep it updated and you’re clear of them.
- Flaws on record
- 12
- High or critical
- 1
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 3.5.1.40
- Last updated
- Oct 28, 2026
- Active installs
- 800,000+
Every recorded flaw
- Sep 30, 2026Smart Slider 3: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2026-14876 · affects up to 3.5.1.38 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Aug 28, 2026Smart Slider 3: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2026-15798 · affects up to 3.5.1.38 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Jul 13, 2026Smart Slider 3: Sensitive Information ExposureCVE-2026-12385 · affects up to 3.5.1.37 · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.3
- Jun 6, 2026Smart Slider 3: Directory TraversalCVE-2026-9197 · affects up to 3.5.1.36 · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.9
- Apr 7, 2026Smart Slider 3: Unauthorized access and modification of dataCVE-2026-4065 · affects up to 3.5.1.33 · reported by WordfenceMedium 5.4
- Mar 27, 2026Smart Slider 3: Arbitrary File ReadCVE-2026-3098 · affects up to 3.5.1.33 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.5
- Jul 30, 2025Smart Slider 3: Time-based SQL InjectionCVE-2025-6348 · affects up to 3.5.1.28 · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.9
- Apr 12, 2024Smart Slider 3: Unauthorized modification of dataCVE-2024-3027 · affects up to 3.5.1.22 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Jan 19, 2024Smart Slider 3: Deserialization of Untrusted DataCVE-2022-45845 · affects up to 3.5.1.9 · reported by PatchstackMedium 4.3
- Mar 27, 2023Smart Slider 3: Does not properly validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embedCVE-2023-0660 · fixed in 3.5.1.14 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.4
- Mar 23, 2023Auth.CVE-2022-45843 · fixed in 3.5.1.11 · reported by PatchstackMedium 5.4
- Oct 31, 2022Smart Slider 3: Unserialises the content of an imported fileCVE-2022-3357 · fixed in 3.5.1.11 · reported by WPScan2.5% oddsHigh 8.8
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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