CVE-2025-31864
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress plugin 'Beam me up Scotty – Back to Top Button' affecting versions through 1.0.23. The vulnerability was reported by Webula on December 20, 2024, and was officially published on April 1, 2025, with the identifier CVE-2025-31864 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has 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. This indicates that the vulnerability requires high privileges and user interaction to exploit, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability all rated as Low (NVD).

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

Currently, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. Given the low severity impact and the requirement for administrative privileges, the vulnerability is considered low priority for patching (Patchstack).

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