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CVE-2025-49047:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the DigitalOcean Spaces Sync WordPress plugin, identified as CVE-2025-49047. The vulnerability affects versions up to 2.2.1 of the plugin and was disclosed on August 14, 2025. The issue stems from improper neutralization of input during web page generation, allowing for stored XSS attacks (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.9 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The weakness is categorized as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). The vulnerability requires administrator-level privileges to exploit (Patchstack).
Impact
If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
As there is currently no official fix available, the recommended mitigation strategy is to remove and replace the software with an alternative solution. The plugin is considered abandoned, having not received updates for over a year (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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