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CVE-2025-24638: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The vulnerability CVE-2025-24638 is a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability discovered in Pete Dring's Create with Code WordPress plugin affecting versions through 1.4. The vulnerability was reported by SOPROBRO and publicly disclosed on January 24, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

This is a DOM-Based Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability classified under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, which could lead to redirects, unauthorized advertisements, and other HTML payloads being executed when guests visit the affected site. This affects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the website (Patchstack).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit, and user interaction is necessary as the victim needs to visit a specifically crafted page or input data into a compromised form (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 1.5 of the Create with Code plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.5 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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