Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-23950

CVE-2025-23950:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2025-23950 is a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability discovered in Said Shiripour's EZPlayer WordPress plugin affecting versions up to 1.0.10. The vulnerability was initially reported by SOPROBRO on December 29, 2024, and was officially published on January 16, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue, with a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium), using the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is categorized under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website, which will be executed when guests visit the site. The attack requires contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability as no patched version has been released. Website administrators running affected versions of the EZPlayer plugin should consider implementing additional security controls or removing the plugin until a fix is available (Patchstack).

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