Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-1523

CVE-2025-1523:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Ultimate Dashboard WordPress plugin versions before 3.8.6 contain a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered on March 27, 2025, and was assigned CVE-2025-1523. The issue affects the plugin's settings functionality, specifically impacting WordPress installations, including multisite setups (WPScan, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization and escaping of certain plugin settings. This security flaw exists even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 3.5 (Low) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating that it requires high privileges and user interaction to exploit (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows high-privilege users such as administrators to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. The impact is particularly notable in multisite setups where even with restricted HTML capabilities, attackers can still inject malicious scripts (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 3.8.6 of the Ultimate Dashboard plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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