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CVE-2025-11883: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Responsive Progress Bar plugin for WordPress (versions ≤ 1.0) was identified with CVE-2025-11883 on October 21, 2025. This vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue that affects the plugin's rprogress shortcode functionality (Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability is characterized as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue, stemming from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the rprogress shortcode. The severity is rated as Medium with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever any user accesses the compromised page, potentially leading to unauthorized data access or manipulation (Wordfence).

Mitigation and workarounds

The plugin has been temporarily closed as of October 17, 2025, pending a full security review. Users are advised to disable and remove the plugin until a security patch is available (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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