Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-48269

CVE-2025-48269:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in Greg Winiarski's WPAdverts plugin affecting versions through 2.2.3. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on May 19, 2025, and is tracked as CVE-2025-48269. This DOM-Based XSS vulnerability affects the WordPress plugin WPAdverts, which is used for creating classified advertisements on WordPress websites (Patchstack, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79) issue. 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 requires low privileges and user interaction to be exploited, with the attack vector being network-accessible (Patchstack).

Impact

If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the website. These scripts could be used to redirect users, inject unwanted advertisements, or execute other HTML payloads that would run when visitors access the affected site. The impact affects confidentiality, integrity, and availability at a low level (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The recommended solution is to update to WPAdverts version 2.2.4 or later, which contains the fix for this vulnerability. For Patchstack users, enabling auto-update for vulnerable plugins is recommended as an additional security measure (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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