Known vulnerabilities in Slick Slider

Turn your native WordPress galleries into beautiful fully responsive sliders. Adjust the slider to your needs on a per gallery base.

1Reported vulnerabilities

6.4Highest CVSS score

0.5.3Latest version

2,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Slick Slider to 0.5.3 or later. 1 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: July 25, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 4.8.30 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2026-16537	Medium 6.4	0.1%	0.5.2 and earlier	`0.5.3`	July 31, 2026

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.