CVE-2025-27330
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in PlayerJS affecting versions through 2.23. The vulnerability was disclosed on February 24, 2025, and was assigned identifier CVE-2025-27330 (NVD, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) issue. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base 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. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-79 (Patchstack).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts that could be executed when guests visit the affected site. The successful exploitation could lead to session takeover and enable attackers to inject redirects, advertisements, and other malicious HTML payloads (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to PlayerJS version 2.24 or later to remediate this vulnerability. The security issue has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

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