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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-22823
CVE-2025-22823:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in Justin Twerdy Genesis Style Shortcodes WordPress plugin, tracked as CVE-2025-22823. The vulnerability affects versions through 1.0 and allows DOM-Based XSS attacks. The issue was discovered by researcher 0xd4rk5id3 and was publicly disclosed on January 7, 2025 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has received a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability requires Contributor or higher privileges to exploit (NVD, Patchstack).
Impact
The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when guests visit the affected site (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. The security issue has been assessed as having a low severity impact (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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