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CVE-2025-31889: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in petesheppard84 Extensions for Elementor plugin affecting versions through 2.0.40. The vulnerability was disclosed on April 1, 2025, and was assigned CVE-2025-31889 (NVD, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been classified as a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue with a CVSS v3.1 Base 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 is categorized under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (Patchstack).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website which will be executed when guests visit the site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. The issue affects versions up to and including 2.0.40 of the Extensions for Elementor plugin (Patchstack).

Community reactions

The vulnerability was initially reported by João Pedro S Alcântara (Kinorth) on September 25, 2024, and was later published by Patchstack on April 1, 2025 (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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