Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-28880

CVE-2025-28880:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability exists in Blue Captcha plugin through version 1.7.4. The vulnerability allows Reflected XSS attacks and was discovered in March 2025 (NVD, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.1 HIGH (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L). The vulnerability allows for Reflected Cross-Site Scripting attacks due to insufficient input validation (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability can lead to unauthorized disclosure of confidential information, manipulation of web content, and potential execution of malicious scripts in users' browsers. The CVSS scoring indicates low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but the overall severity is high due to the scope being changed (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade Blue Captcha to a version newer than 1.7.4 when available. Until then, website administrators should implement additional security controls such as Web Application Firewalls (WAF) to help mitigate potential XSS attacks (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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