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CVE-2025-30623:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Rachel Cherry wA11y – The Web Accessibility Toolbox WordPress plugin, affecting versions through 1.0.3. The vulnerability was identified and disclosed on March 24, 2025, and was assigned CVE-2025-30623 (NVD, Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79). It received a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.9 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L, indicating that it requires high privileges and user interaction to exploit (Patchstack).
Impact
If exploited, this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The issue affects versions up to and including 1.0.3 (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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