CVE-2025-23835
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in NotFound Legal+ plugin through version 1.0. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher 0xd4rk5id3 and was assigned CVE-2025-23835 on January 16, 2025. This security issue affects the WordPress Legal+ Plugin versions up to and including 1.0 (Patchstack Database).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been classified as a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue, specifically of the reflected type, falling under the OWASP Top 10 category A3: Injection. It has been assigned 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. The vulnerability requires no authentication to exploit (Patchstack Database).

Impact

This 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, potentially compromising user security and website integrity (Patchstack Database).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. However, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until an official fix becomes available. Users are advised to implement mitigation measures immediately (Patchstack Database).

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