Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-26747

CVE-2025-26747:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in the 99colorthemes RainbowNews WordPress theme, tracked as CVE-2025-26747. The vulnerability affects versions through 1.0.7 of the RainbowNews theme and was discovered by researcher stealthcopter. The issue was initially reported on October 24, 2024, and was publicly disclosed on March 24, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79) that allows for Stored XSS attacks. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability requires contributor-level privileges to exploit (Patchstack, NVD).

Impact

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 guests visit the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The issue affects RainbowNews theme versions up to and including 1.0.7 (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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