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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-23813
CVE-2025-23813:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Guten Free Options WordPress plugin versions up to 0.9.5 contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-23813. The vulnerability was discovered by Le Ngoc Anh from sun*inc and was publicly disclosed on January 16, 2025 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue due to improper neutralization of input during web page generation. It has been assigned a CVSS score of 7.1 (Medium severity) and falls under the OWASP Top 10 category A3: Injection (Patchstack).
Impact
This vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject harmful scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. However, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate the issue by blocking potential attacks until an official fix becomes available (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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