Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-3779

CVE-2025-3779:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Personizely WordPress plugin contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-3779, discovered on May 2, 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 0.10 and stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'widgetId' parameter. This security issue impacts WordPress installations using the vulnerable versions of the plugin (NVD, Wiz).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. It is classified as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation. The issue specifically relates to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'widgetId' parameter in the plugin's functionality (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These injected scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the affected page, potentially compromising the security of site visitors (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update their Personizely plugin to version 0.11 or later, which contains the security fix for this vulnerability (Wiz).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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