CVE-2025-47659
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in voidcoders WPBakery Visual Composer WHMCS Elements plugin affecting versions through 1.0.4.1. The vulnerability was disclosed on May 7, 2025, and is tracked as CVE-2025-47659. This security issue is classified under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD CVE, Patchstack Report).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned 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. This scoring indicates that the vulnerability requires network access, has low attack complexity, requires low privileges, and user interaction to exploit. The vulnerability type is specifically related to improper neutralization of input during web page generation (Patchstack Report, Wiz Report).

Impact

If successfully 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 guests visit the affected site (Patchstack Report).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. Users are advised to implement general XSS protection measures and consider restricting contributor access until a patch is released (Patchstack Report).

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