Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-46471

CVE-2025-46471:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability was discovered in gnanavelshenll WP Custom Post Popup plugin that allows DOM-Based XSS. This vulnerability affects WP Custom Post Popup versions through 1.0.1. The vulnerability was discovered and reported on April 15, 2025, and publicly disclosed on April 24, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.5 (MEDIUM) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (NVD).

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. The vulnerability requires contributor-level privileges to exploit (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

No official fix is currently available for this vulnerability. Given the low severity impact and unlikely exploitation potential, virtual patching has been deemed unnecessary by security researchers (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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