CVE-2025-47679
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A DOM-Based Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in RS WP THEMES RS WP Book Showcase plugin affecting versions through 6.7.40. The vulnerability was disclosed on May 07, 2025, and was assigned identifier CVE-2025-47679 (NVD, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) issue, specifically a DOM-Based XSS. It 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 tracked under CWE-79 (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 attack requires user interaction and has low impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (Patchstack).

Exploitability

The security issue has been classified as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited. The vulnerability requires Contributor level privileges to exploit (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability (Patchstack).

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