CVE-2025-23623: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress Contact Form 7 – CCAvenue Add-on plugin, identified as CVE-2025-23623. The vulnerability affects all versions through 1.0 of the plugin and was discovered by security researcher Le Ngoc Anh. The issue was reported on October 28, 2024, and publicly disclosed on January 16, 2025 (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79) issue. It received a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.1 (High), with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (Patchstack).

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 visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

Currently, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The issue affects version 1.0 and earlier versions of the Contact Form 7 – CCAvenue Add-on plugin (Patchstack).