CVE-2025-1672
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Notibar – Notification Bar for WordPress plugin is affected by a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-1672) in versions up to and including 2.1.5. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on March 6, 2025, affecting WordPress installations with the Notibar plugin (NVD CVE).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the admin settings of the plugin. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.5 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The weakness is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD CVE).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These injected scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the affected page. The impact is limited to multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled (NVD CVE).

Mitigation and workarounds

A patch has been released in version 2.1.6 of the Notibar plugin, which addresses the security vulnerability. Users are advised to update to this latest version to mitigate the risk (WordPress Plugin).

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