CVE-2025-39505
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in GoodLayers Hotel WordPress plugin, tracked as CVE-2025-39505. The vulnerability affects versions through 3.1.4 of the Goodlayers Hotel plugin and was discovered on January 29, 2025, with public disclosure occurring on May 20, 2025 (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 7.1 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (NVD, Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website, which would be executed when guests visit the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. However, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate the issue by blocking potential attacks until an official fix becomes available. Website administrators are advised to implement the mitigation immediately (Patchstack).

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